Ruchika Agrawal is a litigation associate with a particular focus on intellectual property matters, including patent and trade secret litigation for high-technology clients. She has worked on cases for clients in a broad range of technology industries, including software, wireless communications, and semiconductors.

Ms. Agrawal is admitted to practice in the State of California.

Ms. Agrawal received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2006. She served on the Editorial Board and Submissions Review Board for the Virginia Journal of International Law and as the President of the Virginia Society of Law & Technology.

While in law school, Ms. Agrawal worked with Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School to research and co-author materials on a variety of technology-related legal and public policy issues. She also authored papers on network neutrality and the patent-antitrust entanglement under the advisement of former FCC Commissioner Glen Robinson.

Prior to law school, Ms. Agrawal worked at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC, to work on technology-related civil liberty issues. While at EPIC, she worked with the FTC regarding online consumer protection and prevention of cross-border fraud; worked with the European Commission on privacy enhancing technologies; and served on ICANN's WHOIS task force as a public interest representative. Ms. Agrawal has also worked professionally in both the financial and the pharmaceutical industries.

Ms. Agrawal received her Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2002. At Stanford, she published in the Communications of the ACM under the advisement of Dr. Barbara Simons.

In 1999 Ms. Agrawal earned her Bachelor of Science Summa cum Laude in Computer Science and Philosophy from Rutgers University. She completed her Henry Rutgers Thesis on resolving ambiguity in natural language processing. As her proudest achievement, Ms. Agrawal initiated, coordinated, and instituted a volunteer tutoring organization which still serves the Rutgers community today.