Walk into most corporate legal departments and you’ll find specialists — people who know statutes cold but have never sat across the table from a worker filing a grievance, or negotiators who understand people but flinch at a compliance audit. Tejveer Singh Kharoud is the rare professional who has built a career refusing to pick one over the other.

As an Advocate and Industrial Relations Consultant, Tejveer has spent his career in the space where labour law meets the shop floor — the place where a poorly worded employment contract can spiral into a strike, and where a well-handled grievance can quietly save a company months of litigation and lakhs in losses.

Not Just a Legal Name — A Name Multinationals Return To

Trust in this line of work isn’t won with a single case. It’s earned contract after contract, dispute after dispute, over years. That’s the story behind Tejveer’s client roster, which includes some of the biggest names operating in India:

• Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL)

• Nestlé India

• Linfox Logistics India Pvt. Ltd.

• Transport Corporation of India (TCI)

• AGT Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd.

These aren’t one-off retainers. Organizations of this size don’t gamble on advisors — they keep the ones who consistently get results. His continued association with AGT Infrastructure, for instance, culminated in an Award of Appreciation presented by the company’s Managing Director at its Annual General Meeting — a recognition that speaks to sustained, high-stakes trust rather than a single well-argued case.

The Man Behind the Practice

What sets Tejveer apart is the breadth of his grounding. He holds a B.Com, an LL.B., and a Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Relations & Personnel Management (PGDM-IRPM)

— a combination that’s rarer than it sounds. Most lawyers understand the law. Fewer

understand HR, negotiation psychology, and the operational pressures a factory floor or logistics hub faces every single day. Tejveer’s diploma in industrial relations means he isn’t translating between legal and business teams — he speaks both natively.

Since 2021, he has also run an independent legal practice as an Advocate, appearing before the Punjab & Haryana High Court in Chandigarh . He is a Designated Partner at Isher Legals LLP and a Member of the Bar Association of Punjab & Haryana Hingh Court, enrolled with the Bar Council of Punjab & Haryana. Fluent in English, Hindi, and Punjabi, he moves comfortably between courtroom formality, boardroom strategy, and shop-floor conversations — a skill that matters more in industrial relations than most people realize.

Beyond corporate work, he has also taken on cases involving social injustice, representing people who found themselves exploited and without a voice — work that rarely makes headlines but says a great deal about the kind of advocate he chooses to be.

Why “Industrial Relations” Is More Than a Job Title

Ask any HR head who’s dealt with a real workplace crisis, and they’ll tell you: the law is only half the battle. The other half is trust — convincing a workforce that the process is fair, convincing management that a resolution won’t set a bad precedent, and doing it all fast enough that the business doesn’t grind to a halt.

Tejveer’s day-to-day work reflects that reality:

• Drafting contracts and agreements that hold up under scrutiny — and under pressure

• Handling disciplinary proceedings and domestic inquiries with procedural rigor

• Resolving grievances and disputes before they escalate into litigation or unrest

• Advising on statutory compliance as India’s labour law landscape keeps shifting

• Managing employer-employee relations in a way that protects both sides

None of this is glamorous. It’s the unglamorous, unseen work that keeps large organizations running without headlines about strikes, walkouts, or lawsuits.

A Philosophy Built on Prevention, Not Just Defense

Perhaps the most telling thing about Tejveer’s approach is what he prioritizes: not winning disputes, but preventing them. He works with companies before problems surface — auditing contracts, tightening HR policy, training management on compliance — because by the time a dispute reaches a courtroom, everyone has already lost something: time, money, morale, or trust.

It’s a philosophy that mirrors how insurance works: the real value isn’t the payout, it’s the disaster that never happened.

The Bigger Picture

India’s manufacturing, logistics, and infrastructure sectors are expanding at a pace that outstrips the ability of most legal frameworks to keep up in real time. Companies operating here don’t just need a lawyer on retainer — they need a strategic partner fluent in both statute and shop floor.

That’s the role Tejveer Singh Kharoud has carved out for himself — not as a courtroom specialist, but as the advisor multinational companies call before the courtroom becomes necessary.

Tejveer Singh Kharoud is an Advocate and Industrial Relations Consultant based in Patiala, practising before the Punjab & Haryana High Court and District Courts, and Designated Partner at Isher Legals LLP.