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Sonal Bhatia, Keenan & Bhatia
Staff Report//July 9, 2025//
Partner, Kansas City
Sonal Bhatia is a trial lawyer who also maintains an active executive severance practice. She has recently negotiated pre-trial settlements for executives, doctors, tech workers and healthcare professionals, ranging from $1.2 to $5.1 million. She secured case-ending sanctions in two major workers’ compensation retaliation cases: in 2022 against a large hospital that misrepresented discoverable evidence, and in 2024 against a hospital that destroyed surveillance videos.
Her trials include an $8.5 million dollar verdict against Spire in St. Louis in a race discrimination/retaliation case; a $6.4 million verdict against Astellas Pharma in a retaliation case; and a $3.4 million verdict in a failure-to-hire retaliation case against Kansas City, Missouri.
Bhatia practices with her husband and fellow POWER List honoree E.E. Keenan at their firm.
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