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Ravi Rajendra ( He/Him/His )

Deputy County Counsel

Overview

Ravi Rajendra joined the Office of the County Counsel in 2018.  He is a member of the Office’s Education Law Team and Social Justice and Impact Litigation Team.  In addition, he advises the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, the Office of Immigrant Relations, the Juvenile Justice Commission, and FIRST 5 Santa Clara County on a variety of issues. 

Before he joined the Office, Ravi represented and advised labor unions, low-wage workers, and non-profit organizations at Altshuler Berzon LLP, a public interest law firm in San Francisco.  Before that, Ravi represented labor unions, union-affiliated employee benefit funds, and related entities at Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC, in Washington, DC.  In these positions, Ravi worked on affirmative litigation, including in class actions, arbitration, and adjudication before administrative agencies; legislative drafting and policy development; public advocacy campaigns; and ongoing advice matters.  Ravi’s professional expertise includes affirmative litigation, labor & employment law, administrative law, ethics and conflicts issues, and legislative drafting. 

Office practice areas
  • Education Law Team 
  • Social Justice and Impact Litigation Team 
​​Education
  • New York University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2007 
    • Leonard M. Henkin Prize for article on the equal rights clause of the 14th Amendment 
    • Flora S. & Jacob L. Newman Prize for contribution to the Review of Law & Social Change 
    • Articles Selection Editor, N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change 
  • Columbia University, B.A., 2003 
    • Thesis in American History (labor organizing among farmworkers in the late 1940s) 
    • Barbara Wertheimer Prize for Labor History (New York Labor History Association) 
    • Managing Board, Columbia Daily Spectator 
Professional associations
  • NLC Fellow, New Leaders Council San Francisco (2018) 
Prior experience
  • Associate at Altshuler Berzon LLP (2015-2018) 
  • Associate at Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C. (2011-2015) 
  • Law Clerk to the Honorable Janet Bond Arterton, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (2008-2010) 
  • Associate at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (2007-2008)