Neha Chanchlani: Advocacy with Discipline, Training with Purpose

Blending legal expertise with POSH training to help organizations move from compliance to culture!

Workplaces often mirror society. When they are safe, respectful, and fair, people can thrive. When they are not, the silence can weigh heavier than words. This is where lawyers step in, not only to resolve conflicts but also to prevent them from taking root. In Pune, that role has found a strong voice in Neha Chanchlani, the Co-founder of CLAWW, Chanchlani Law World.

Through her practice, Neha has built a reputation for turning legal processes into conversations that are clear, precise, and respectful. At CLAWW, advocacy is not about aggressive arguments but about firm timelines, structured solutions, and the calm of knowing exactly where you stand.

For Neha, law is more than legal briefs and courtrooms. It is about shaping trust. Every client who walks into her office brings questions that touch lives, not just contracts. Her approach focuses on easing uncertainty while guiding people with both empathy and discipline.

This year, she stepped further into a space that connects law with culture. By completing a certified Train-the-Trainer program in the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH), accredited for SHRM and HRCI recertification, she now helps organizations move from compliance to culture. Training sessions and workshops under her guidance do more than outline rules; they create awareness that respect and dignity should be the everyday language of work.

Neha often explains it in one line: “Compliance is the floor; culture is the ceiling. Our work is the staircase.” It is a belief that law is not just reactive but proactive, shaping how people interact before disputes even arise.

Her journey shows that law can be both shield and guide. Through CLAWW and her POSH initiatives, Neha is helping workplaces embrace fairness as a culture rather than a checklist. In her hands, law becomes less about calming storms and more about ensuring the skies stay clear.

Let us learn more about her journey:

Blending Law and Psychology for a Purposeful Practice

Neha’s academic journey formed the foundation of her professional path. She pursued a bachelor’s degree in child psychology from Delhi University, followed by LLB from Savitribai Phule Pune University, sharpening her skills further with intellectual property Law later from Savitribai Phule Pune University. This rare blend of psychology and law gave her the ability to understand human emotions while addressing complex legal matters with clarity.

With this strong base, she, along with advocate Adv. Paarth Chanchlani (BBA LLB, LLM Corporate Law), established Chanchlani Law World.

The firm was born out of a vision to provide legal assistance that is efficient, thoughtful, and accessible to those who require it most. Their mission has been to represent individuals with diligence and to make the legal process as effortless as possible.

At the heart of this effort, Neha plays a defining role. Drawing upon her knowledge in psychology, she leads the growth of the firm and focuses on arbitration cases. Her perspective allows her to approach disputes with both empathy and strategy, ensuring that clients feel supported while receiving effective representation.

Building Strong and Fair POSH Practices

Prevention-first systems lie at the core of Neha’s approach. She creates POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment) policies that are legally sound, simple to read, and ready for audits. Her focus is on making compliance a continuous practice rather than a hurried task at the last moment. According to her, policies must work in daily life so they can stand firm during extraordinary circumstances.

She also places emphasis on the strength and neutrality of Internal Committees. From designing balanced committees to offering deep capacity-building sessions, she prepares members to manage intake, evaluation, and inquiry with confidentiality and fairness. For her, a fair process safeguards everyone; the complainant, the respondent, and the organisation itself.

Her method of training reflects trauma awareness. She blends legal precision with sensitivity, ensuring that training does not retraumatize and that investigations avoid causing unintended harm. In her words, dignity is not an addition to the process, it is the process itself.

Documentation and defensibility hold equal weight in her work. She provides teams with inquiry scripts, scenario playbooks, and template bundles that limit error, reduce bias, and enable faster, more reliable decision-making. She believes that written records must be created to withstand scrutiny tomorrow, whether before a board, a court, or an audit.

Neha also engages leadership at every step. Through structured briefings for CXOs, HR leaders, and IC Chairs, she translates risk into governance, ethics into measurable outcomes, and culture into stronger retention and reputation. She often describes leadership as the one that sets the weather, while the Internal Committee brings the instruments to measure and respond.

Her approach weaves law, empathy, and governance into a framework that upholds dignity, fairness, and accountability at every level.

Why Workplace Culture and Training Shape Real Change

Culture in any workplace is more than a value on paper. When employees feel safe, morale rises, retention improves, and the employer brand strengthens. As Neha often emphasizes, people remain in an organisation for dignity, rather than for perks.

Training also plays a central role. Neha designs her sessions to move from awareness into real behaviour. They are practical, interactive, and rich with scenarios, making sure that participants know what steps to take in real situations. For her, training holds meaning only when it influences a decision, rather than staying confined to a presentation slide.

Her experience as an external IC member for several corporate houses gives her approach a unique depth. She brings ground realities into every workshop and inquiry, which helps participants connect with the subject in a direct way. Neha believes that true expertise makes the difference between reciting a script and creating a genuine conversation.

How Workshops Create Safer Workplaces

Workshops are designed to bring learning into practice. They rely on interactive methods such as case studies, role-plays, and decision trees that make difficult choices feel easier to handle. As Neha explains, ambiguity is where bias enters, and practice is the way to keep it away.

Every session comes with ready-to-use toolkits, complaint intake formats, confidentiality protocols, timelines, and report templates. These resources bring clarity and standardisation across cases. As she believes, clarity is kindness, especially when an investigation is at stake.

Workshops also focus on continuous improvement. Pre- and post-assessments, IC roadmaps, and leadership checkpoints connect learning with measurable progress. For Neha, compliance captures a single moment, but culture is an ongoing film that shapes the workplace.

For clients, the outcomes are clear. They leave with prevention-first policies that stand firm during audits. Their investigations become steadier through inquiry scripts, disciplined documentation, and real-life scenario practice. Most importantly, they learn to treat culture as performance, where safety, trust, and accountability reflect in engagement, retention, and reputation.

In her words, law provides the structure, and empathy shapes the practice. Together, they bring safety to life. With legal precision on one hand, facilitation skill in the other, and empathy guiding every step, Neha supports organisations in building safer and more inclusive workplaces; through each clear policy, capable committee, and fair inquiry.