Ralitza Dineva is Of Counsel in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where her practice focuses on advising clients in connection with regulatory inquiries and internal investigations, white collar defense, and domestic and cross-border regulatory compliance counseling. She also has extensive experience handling complex commercial disputes, securities class actions, shareholder derivative lawsuits, and merger litigation before state and federal courts and in arbitration proceedings.
Ralitza maintains an active pro bono practice and has successfully represented clients seeking asylum in the U.S., seeking relief in connection with predatory bail bond agreements, and in complex matters involving public law, including the Freedom of Information Act, the California Public Records Act, and the California Environmental Quality Act. She also represented the family of a murdered Honduran environmental activist in U.S. District Court and before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to obtain discovery for use in the murder trial in Honduras.
During law school, Ralitza served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Phyllis J. Hamilton, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and as a research assistant to Professor Pratheepan Gulasekaram in the areas of constitutional and immigration law. She also represented a client in an immigration appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and advised low-income clients on various employment law issues as part of the Workers' Rights Clinic of the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center.
Ralitza Dineva is Of Counsel in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where her practice focuses on advising clients in connection with regulatory inquiries and internal investigations, white collar defense, and domestic and cross-border regulatory compliance counseling. She also has extensive experience handling complex commercial disputes, securities class actions, shareholder derivative lawsuits, and merger litigation before state and federal courts and in arbitration proceedings.
Ralitza maintains an active pro bono practice and has successfully represented clients seeking asylum in the U.S., seeking relief in connection with predatory bail bond agreements, and in complex matters involving public law, including the Freedom of Information Act, the California Public Records Act, and the California Environmental Quality Act. She also represented the family of a murdered Honduran environmental activist in U.S. District Court and before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to obtain discovery for use in the murder trial in Honduras.
During law school, Ralitza served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Phyllis J. Hamilton, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and as a research assistant to Professor Pratheepan Gulasekaram in the areas of constitutional and immigration law. She also represented a client in an immigration appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and advised low-income clients on various employment law issues as part of the Workers' Rights Clinic of the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center.