Disha Patel focuses her practice on complex litigation matters, particularly intellectual property disputes. Ms. Patel has represented clients – both patent holders and accused infringers – in cases involving a range of technologies. She also maintains an active pro bono practice, which has included defensive asylum proceedings, child support and custody litigation, and reproductive rights litigation. Ms. Patel has argued in federal district court, served as lead trial counsel in Massachusetts state court and argued before the Executive Office of Immigration Review. Ms. Patel began her career at WilmerHale as a summer associate in 2019 where she assisted with a class action immigration litigation and an appellate brief regarding immigration and the First Amendment.

While attending Northeastern University School of Law, Ms. Patel worked as a co-op student at AARP Legal Foundation, Cascadia Cross Border Law Group and the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. She volunteered with the Domestic Violence Institute’s Legal Assistance to Victims program and was a student attorney and teaching assistant in the school’s Immigrant Justice Clinic. Ms. Patel was also a teaching assistant for Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law and Torts.

Prior to law school, she was a legal intern at the Hampden County District Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts and Tuckers Solicitors in London. 

Professional Activities

Ms. Patel is a member of the South Asian Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association and the Massachusetts Bar Association (MBA). She has previously served on the MBA's Young Lawyers Division Board of Directors as a Co-Chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Committee, an At-Large Delegate and a liaison to the MBA’s Civil Rights and Social Justice committee.

Ms. Patel has also participated in multiple panel discussions, including, "Becoming an IP Lawyer Without a Science/Technical Background" hosted by the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division and Suffolk University Law School’s Office of Professional and Career Development, and "BU Law’s First Generation Professionals" hosted by BU Law’s First Generation Professionals student organization.