Raphael Rajendra
Raphael (Ravi) Rajendra joined Bredhoff & Kaiser as an associate in 2011. His practice focuses on the representation of labor unions in a variety of litigation settings, in both state and federal courts and on both trial and appellate matters. Prior to joining the firm, Ravi was for two years a law clerk to the Honorable Janet Bond Arterton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, and also practiced environmental law in San Francisco. He has published articles on methods of constitutional change, the law of environmental impact review, and cap-and-trade regulation of greenhouse gases, and has also co-written op-eds for the popular press on race discrimination and election law.
Ravi earned his J.D., cum laude, from NYU School of Law in 2007, where he was a research assistant, teaching assistant, and tutor, and won an award for an article on the Fourteenth Amendment. He also won an award for his contributions to the NYU Review of Law & Social Change, for which he served as Articles Selection Editor. Ravi received his B.A. in History in 2003 from Columbia University, where he was an editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator and won the New York Labor History Association’s Barbara Wertheimer Prize for Labor History for his senior thesis on labor organizing among migrant farm workers in California during the 1940s. Before law school, Ravi did research in Indian legal history.
Ravi is admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C., New York, and California (inactive).