Ashoo Sharma joined Harry Norman, Realtors in 2014. As the company’s chief legal officer, Sharma is responsible for ensuring that the company’s legal strategies maximize its business objectives. Sharma provides legal support to the company’s agents, brokers, and various business units. Her responsibilities include developing and implementing risk management programs, assisting brokers through real estate issues that get difficult, educating agents and brokers on legal topics and best practices, reviewing vendor contracts, managing company litigation and regulatory actions, and monitoring compliance of the many rules and regulations governing the real estate industry. Sharma additionally serves as ambassador of the company’s People and Culture Council and leads diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.
Sharma is considered an industry expert and regularly serves on panels discussing real estate, legal, diversity, and professional best practices. “Paying it forward”, she often mentors law students and junior attorneys through various organizations. She earned her law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2001. As an active member of the Georgia legal and business community, she served as the EVP of Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce and VP/founding board member of Georgia’s South-Asian Attorney Bar Association. She is a past Barrister in the Bleckley Inn of Court and recipient of several professional excellence awards, including: “Georgia Rising Stars” by Super Lawyers publication (2006 and 2011), GC Impact Award by Fulton County Daily Report publication (2017), and Top 100 Corporate Counsel award by OnConferences (2020), and Georgia Legal Award for Diversity Champion (2022), and the GC Powerlist Atlanta award by The Legal 500 publication (2023), Diversity Champion Corporate Counsel award by Atlanta Business Chronicle (2023), and appointment to the prestigious Leadership Atlanta Class (2023).
In 2020, Sharma was appointed by the Governor to the Georgia Equal Opportunity Commission’s Advisory Board to help safeguard Georgians from housing discrimination and elected to become the Board’s Vice-Chair. Since 2020, she has also served as Vice-Chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Georgia Chapter Board.
