Chandrika’s path to the law did not begin in the law. It began in environments where decisions had to work the next day, on systems that could not afford theoretical answers, and in a family business where success depended less on what was promised than on what was actually delivered. By the time she entered legal practice, she already understood something many lawyers spend years learning: risk is rarely abstract. It lives in vague contracts, delayed governance, and decisions made without regard for how people and systems behave under pressure.

At Agnew Law, Chandrika works where law, business operations, healthcare regulation, and technology converge – where legal advice is only as valuable as its ability to survive contact with the real world. She joined the firm to help build a practice grounded in commercial and regulatory reality, treating legal structure not as an academic exercise but as infrastructure for decision-making. Her work centers on helping healthcare providers, business owners, and executives protect what they are building while continuing to move forward intelligently.

Across her practice, Chandrika approaches legal risk the way an operator does, as something to be designed around, not simply reacted to. For healthcare organizations and businesses, this means contracts, compliance structures, and governance frameworks built to reduce predictable disputes, regulatory exposure, and operational disruption. For professionals and business owners, it means trust and estate planning that reflects the complexity of modern wealth – coordinating operating entities, real estate, and succession planning so success is preserved, risk is contained, and long-term family and business continuity are protected.

Her instincts were shaped early. In her family’s business, she staffed trade shows, worked sales conversations, and saw how vendor relationships and small operational details determined whether deals succeeded or quietly failed. That experience produced a professional style that remains pragmatic, commercially grounded, and focused on what will actually make a transaction or compliance strategy work once implementation begins.

Before entering the legal profession, Chandrika spent more than a decade inside a Fortune-ranked telecommunications company in leadership and process-improvement roles across network operations, customer service, and project management. She worked on mission-critical infrastructure, led cross-functional teams, and supported Six Sigma and ISO initiatives while building forecasting and planning tools used across multi-state operations. The experience gave her a lasting understanding of how decisions cascade across organizations, and how well-intentioned solutions fail when implementation realities are ignored.

She later earned an MBA in Finance and her law degree from SMU, where she was recognized as Best Oral Advocate in Moot Court. She is fluent in the language of business, healthcare regulation, and risk, and is particularly valued for translating complex regulatory and legal frameworks into clear, executable decisions.

Chandrika has served as General Counsel and executive compliance leader for a Texas hospital during periods of intense regulatory scrutiny, advising executive leadership on Stark Law, Anti-Kickback compliance, physician compensation, crisis response, and major healthcare transactions. She has also served as Corporate Counsel and healthcare compliance leader within a global enterprise environment, managing complex contracting and regulatory compliance across HIPAA, managed care, Medicare and Medicaid programs, international privacy regimes, and audit frameworks including HITRUST, SOC, PCI, and ISO.

Her work also sits at the center of modern technology and data governance. She advises on SaaS and PaaS deployments, third-party processor ecosystems, and vendor structures where obligations extend across layered subcontractor and data-sharing relationships. Her focus remains practical: aligning contract requirements, privacy obligations, and data governance controls with real-world operational security, incident response, and audit expectations.

Alongside her in-house leadership work, Chandrika has advised small and mid-sized businesses as outside counsel and is a trained mediator, bringing a steady, solutions-oriented presence to negotiations and disputes.

At Agnew Law, she focuses on healthcare organizations, healthcare-adjacent businesses, technology transactions, business organizations, and trust and estate planning for professionals and business owners, particularly where business structure, real estate ownership, regulatory risk, and long-term asset protection intersect. She frequently serves as strategic or fractional general counsel, helping clients assess risk clearly, act decisively, and build with confidence across both operational and legacy planning decisions.

Chandrika is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Dallas Bar Association, and the Dallas Asian American Bar Association.