Zehra Ladha was born in Long Island, New York, and is a first-generation attorney. The countries and states she grew up in include Pakistan (Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Kashmir), New Hampshire (Nashua), New York (Queens, the Bronx, Long Island), Washington (Woodinville, Bellevue, Seattle), Massachusetts (Lexington, Holliston) and she has attended more than 10 different schools in her life. While in law school at UC Law San Francisco, Zehra received the Innovation Law Clinics Merit Scholarship, Blum Scholarship, Dean's Scholarship, Allen D. Wilson Memorial scholarship, and was the founding CEO of a startup where she created a technology to help mobilize unhoused individuals, and was a finalist receiving funding for her pitch at the UC-Wide Big Ideas Venture Competition in 2021, at UC Berkeley. Her law review article at the intersection of the partition and intellectual property law is pending publication at UCLA School of Law’s Pacific Basin Law Journal: One Sari Three Different Ways to Drape it.

Zehra was also the vice president of the South Asian Law Students Association at her law school, president of the Muslim Law Students Association, and a mentor for SABA. Aside from her IP Litigation Practice, she has an active pro bono practice where she counsels on asylum, domestic violence, and immigration matters for children and women including special immigrant juvenile status. Most recently, she was part of the Afghan Refugee clinic, a joint effort with Amazon, where she both translated from Urdu with the clients and completed the legal paperwork. She is thankful for the opportunity to advocate for her community.