Narendra K. Ghosh Partner Patterson Harkavy, Chapel Hill

North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff//August 25, 2025//

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Narendra Ghosh started his career as a computer programmer in Silicon Valley before enrolling in law school at New York University. He joined Patterson Harkavy in 2005 after receiving his law degree.

Today, he is a partner, and has litigated many high-profile, notable cases. The desire to help people find justice led Ghosh to choose employment law as his focus.

“Representing working people is way to achieve some measure of economic justice for individuals in an environment that if often very unfair to workers,” he says.

In 2013, the N.C. General Assembly passed a bill to eliminate tenure for public school teachers. Ghosh and his firm represented the N.C. Association of Educators in challenging the new law, taking it all the way to the North Carolina Supreme Court, where they prevailed.

“Our work resulted in the North Carolina Supreme Court declaring the law unconstitutional,” he says. “This was a significant ruling for teachers, and I consider it my most important case.”