They’ve Got Next: Government Contracts Fresh Face Umer Chaudhry

Umer Chaudhry remembers watching his father with awe as he would put on a suit and tie and go down to the courthouse in Lahore, Pakistan to advocate for his clients.

But as religious discrimination mounted against his family’s specific sect of Islam, Chaudhry said a chain of events began that would eventually lead him to follow in his father’s footsteps—and become a promising attorney in Washington, D.C.

His father “recognized that the future of the family was not looking very bright,” Chaudhry said. “Pakistan had already become a very complex society to navigate, intolerant in some ways, and so ...