Palak Jain

Ms. Palak Jain is a High Court advocate with a decade of experience and holds a law degree from National Law Institute University, Bhopal (2010-2015). She is currently practicing at the High Court of Orissa. Having previously worked with National Commission for Women as a Sr. Legal Consultant for more than four years, she has worked on hundreds of complaints relating to gender-based violence, discrimination, and sexual harassment. She has a rich experience of various legislative and policy nuances relating to gender rights and has been working with several governmental and non-governmental stakeholders on matters pertaining to women rights. She was posted as Assistant Registrar with National Company Law Tribunal, Cuttack Bench before moving to litigation practice.

Certified in POSH laws/investigation, she has trained nearly 7000 participants/employees through workshops on POSH/gender sensitization. She was invited by Sikkim Police Headquarters and Gujarat Police Academy for training state police officer trainees on women rights. She has delivered POSH Awareness sessions for several Central/State/Private Universities and Professional/Industrial Associations.

At present, she is engaged as an external member in ICs of three organizations/establishments – Asego group, Totality Corp Limited and Showroom B2B (3Fate). Additionally, she is also a certified mediator/arbitrator from IIAM, New Delhi offering services in amicable resolution of commercial, contractual, employment and matrimonial disputes