Vijay Dinakar

we aim for total victory and will not rest until that is accomplished. I was born and raised in New York and from an early age, I wanted to be a trial attorney. I was inspired by the historical examples of lawyer heroes of mine like Clarence Darrow, Mahatma Gandhi, John Adams, and Barry Scheck and I wanted to be lawyer not to defend powerful entities like the government or large corporations but to represent individuals against a powerful and overweening government. I attended Santa Clara University School of Law and while there worked at the Innocence Project where I helped to free an innocent man serving a life sentence for a crime he did not commit. After law school, I worked for the Public Defender’s Office where I represented thousands of people accused of committing criminal offenses.