Practice Areas
| Elder Law Business Planning Family Law Immigration Civil Practice General Practice Real Estate Estate Planning Civil Appeals Business Formation Business Transfers Adoptions Child Support Cohabitation Agreements Grandparents Visitation Rights Grandparents Custody Third Party Custody Step Parent Adoptions Premarital Agreements |
Post Nuptial Agreements Name Changes Adult Guardianship Advance Directives Conservatorship Elder Guardianship Guardianship Guardianship Administration Incompetency Proceedings Immigration Law Citizenship Employment Authorizations Family Immigration Law Visas Civil Litigation Probate Wills Trusts and Estates Estate Administration |
University:
University of Chicago, B.A., Psychology, 1996; Valparaiso University, M.A., Psychology, 2003
Law School:
Valparaiso University, J.D., Cum Laude, Honors Degree, Elder/Health Care Law Concentration, 2003
Admitted:
2003, Indiana and U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana; 2004, Illinois
Memberships:
Chicago, Lake County, Illinois State, Indiana State, and American Bar Associations; American Immigration Lawyers’ Association, Inns of Court
Languages:
Punjabi
Biography
Sophia J. Arshad is the managing partner of Arshad, Pangere & Warring, LLP located in Merrillville, Indiana, a general practice firm. Licensed to practice in state and federal courts, she was admitted to the Indiana State Bar in 2003, the Illinois State Bar in 2004, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana in 2003. She primarily practices estate planning, probate law, immigration law, real estate law, and family law. Her firm Arshad, Pangere and Warring LLP was organized on the day she was sworn in to the Indiana State Bar on October 20, 2003. Her partners are her former law school colleagues and study partners: Vasilia M. Pangere and Matthew J. Warring. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Indiana Bar Association, the Illinois Bar Association, the Lake County Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Psi Chi Honor Society in Psychology and the American Inns of Court. She shared her knowledge of the law as an undergraduate adjunct professor at Davenport University teaching labor and employment law and business law. She also often is a presenter at continuing legal education seminars.
As an undergraduate, she attended the University of Chicago, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with a premedical concentration in 1996. As a graduate student, Sophia attended Valparaiso University School of Law, where she earned her Juris Doctorate and graduated cum laude in 2003. She earned a joint Master of Arts degree in Psychological Foundations; she was part of the Honors Program; she held the position of editor for the Valparaiso University Law Review; she concentrated her studies on elder care and healthcare issues; she was a civil law clinic intern in 2003; she pursued the Methodist Hospital’s externship; and she was a Dean’s Scholarship and ISBA Scholarship recipient.
