Rohit K. Singla is a litigation partner who focuses on antitrust, intellectual property, and complex employment disputes at trial and appeal.
Mr. Singla has received numerous accolades including being recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the Top Antitrust Lawyers and one of the Top Labor and Employment Lawyers in California. He is consistently ranked in Chambers USA in antitrust. Mr. Singla was also recognized as a 2024 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) for obtaining a historic injunction against the City and County of Los Angeles eliminating cash bail for people arrested on most low-level, non-violent offenses. He also received the 2024 Keta Taylor Colby Award from the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco for litigation vindicating the rights of California’s poor.
Mr. Singla has an active pro bono practice that has recently included the representation of more than a dozen families that were separated at the border during the Trump administration, an appeal relating to federally mandated educational advisory boards for migrant workers, and challenging the century-old bail system in California that keeps poor people in jail merely because they cannot afford bail. He is a member of the board of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, including two years as chair of the board, and the board of governors of Public Advocates, a public interest law firm.
Education
Mr. Singla received a B.S. with honors in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he was the first undergraduate to be awarded a teaching fellowship in the Computer Science department and spent four years as a teaching fellow. He then spent two years with McKinsey & Company’s Knowledge Management group in New York. After receiving his law degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, Mr. Singla clerked for Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena and served as a research fellow at Stanford Law School’s Law, Science & Technology Program.