Michelle Dewkett-Kochhar

Michelle Dewkett-Kochhar is an attorney at Hardison & Cochran in Raleigh, North Carolina, where her practice focuses on workers' compensation law.

Dewkett-Kochhar earned her Bachelor of Arts in International Studies with a Minor in Spanish from North Carolina State University, and her Juris Doctor from the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University in 2019. She passed the North Carolina Bar Exam in summer 2019.

Before joining Hardison & Cochran, she gained experience through internships with the Wake County Public Defender's Office, a personal injury firm, and the Battered Immigrant Project of Legal Aid North Carolina.

She is fluent in Spanish and has worked with firms specializing in serving Spanish-speaking communities.

She was named to the North Carolina Super Lawyer Magazine Rising Stars List in 2025.