Malavika F. Lobo

Malavika F. Lobo

Associate

Malavika Lobo is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the firm's litigation department.

Prior to joining the firm, Malavika was a Brackett Denniston fellow at General Electric. During law school, she was a judicial extern to the Honorable Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the U.S. District of Massachusetts.

Experience

Malavika Lobo is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the firm's litigation department.

Education

J.D., Boston University School of Law, 2017Administrative Editor, American Journal of Law and Medicine; Recipient, Homer Albers Moot Court Competition
B.A., Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2010

Admissions

State Bar of California

Credentials

Education

J.D., Boston University School of Law, 2017Administrative Editor, American Journal of Law and Medicine; Recipient, Homer Albers Moot Court Competition
B.A., Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2010

Admissions

State Bar of California

Recent Insights

Client Highlights

On November 14, 2019, Wilson Sonsini pro bono attorneys secured a grant of asylum for an asylum seeker from Thailand. The client, “J”, came through Wilson Sonsini through the AIDS Legal Referral Panel, and is the firm’s first client from this organization. J originally came to the United States in 1996 to pursue her Master’s degree. However, a financial crisis in Thailand caused her to lose her school funding. J stayed in the United States in order to work and save money for school, and to avoid her family who do not support her as a transgender woman. In 2008, J contracted HIV, and requires several expensive medications to stay alive that she would not be able to access in Thailand. In April 2019, J, with the help of her doctors, transitioned in her public and private life and now lives fully as a transgender woman. While asylum applicants generally must apply for asylum within one year of entering the United States, Wilson Sonsini successfully argued that J’s transition constituted an “extraordinary circumstance” to overcome the statutory one-year bar.

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