Asha Sharma

For Asha, understanding her clients and the impact of their disability on their lives is key to winning their cases. She treats her clients with respect and compassion and fights hard to win their cases.

Asha’s 30+ years of experience as a lawyer help her to be an effective advocate for her clients. She has been an attorney since 1991 and has practiced Social Security Disability law since 2005. She has handled more than a thousand Social Security Disability hearings.  Asha has done numerous presentations about the disability process.  She is a member of the National Organization for Social Security Claims Representatives and has presented to this organization multiple times.  She was co-chair of the Social Security Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association.

Asha has had a wide range of experience in the law. For ten years, she worked for the Minnesota Department of Human Services in disability health, children’s mental health, and other areas. She was an Adjunct Professor at the William Mitchell School of Law from 2004 to 2006. She was a volunteer mediator at Ramsey County and also volunteered with Minnesota Attorneys for Human Rights, where she helped international refugees seeking asylum status.

Asha graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she was an editor at the Minnesota Law Review.  Upon graduation, she clerked for the Minnesota 3rd District Court (Rochester, MN) and later at the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

Asha is a lifelong Midwesterner: she was born and raised in Wisconsin and has lived in Minnesota for more than 30 years. She enjoys travel, reading, hiking, and spending time with her family, especially spoiling her grandkids, nieces, and nephews.