Being Sheela

Sheela Murthy -- immigration lawyer, entrepreneur and philanthropist -- has helped many people overcome injustice, dispossession and legal tangles, so they may live a life of dignity in an increasingly challenging world. With insightful detours into her eventful growing-up years, the book follows Sheela s journey from India to America, through law school at Harvard to the inception of what went on to become one of the most successful immigration law firms in the world -- the Murthy Law Firm. The book takes a close look at a few out of the countless cases that Sheela and her dynamic legal team have handled over twenty-five years in the face of rapidly changing American attitudes towards immigrants. Being Sheela is about the human side of a successful professional, an immigrant and woman of color, who has made it her purpose to strive for a better world.