Lala Qadir represents a broad range of clients in the white collar defense and internal investigations practice, in addition to providing strategic advice to global companies on structuring cross-functional compliance programs. She has advised client-facing criminal and civil enforcement investigations by the United States Department of Justice and other criminal and civil regulatory agencies. She has also managed independent investigations of workplace culture and discrimination at multinational companies and institutions. In addition, she maintains an active pro bono practice, focused on veterans, voting rights, and criminal justice matters.

Lala is a member of the firm's Artificial Intelligence Initiative. She is also a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University Law School and a Distinguished Fellow with the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) at Syracuse University.

Prior to practicing law, Lala was a management consultant and brings several years of leadership and management experience in organizational transformation, strategic planning and performance management. She helped clients align strategy and accountability in the areas of national security, homeland defense, and judicial reform. She previously served as Director of Strategy and Performance for the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and was a Harvard University Center for Public Leadership Fellow with the F.W. de Klerk Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa.