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Deepinder K. Goraya

Co-founder and Attorney

GH Disability Law Group

Deepinder K. Goraya (aka Deepa) is a disability rights attorney based in Washington DC but grew up in southern California. Deepa has experience in enforcing the rights of people with disabilities through litigation in the areas of public accommodations, transportation, housing, employment, education, and other areas, and has focused in particular on improving the accessibility of web sites, mobile applications, and touch screen technology for the blind. Most recently, she was an Associate at McGuinness Law Group, a disability rights firm in northern California, where she investigated and litigated cases in housing discrimination and public accommodations. Prior to that, she was a Trial Attorney in the Workers’ Rights and Anti-Fraud Section at the DC Office of the Attorney General, where she investigated and litigated cases involving the failure to follow District Safe and Sick Leave laws, failure to pay proper wages, and failure to properly classify workers.

Prior to the DCOAG, Deepa was a Public Rights Project Fellow in the Office of the Delaware Attorney General, where she worked in the Division of Civil Rights and Public Trust and with the Director of Impact Litigation to address civil rights abuses by developing pattern and practice discrimination investigations and litigation in the areas of disability rights and fair housing, and working on multi-state voter protection advocacy and discriminatory lending/redlining. Prior to this, Deepa worked as a Staff Attorney at Disability Rights Maryland on the ADA/DD/Medicaid Team, where she represented individuals with disabilities in administrative hearings to obtain and maintain support services such as home and community-based services through Medicaid 1915(c) waivers, Maryland’s Community First Choice program, REM nursing, and in-home aid services.

Prior to joining Disability Rights Maryland, Deepa was Associate Counsel at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. While there, she worked on numerous cases challenging violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, and state and local disability statutes. Some of her successes have included a settlement against Sweetgreen, Inc. to remediate its online ordering system, which was inaccessible to blind customers; a public consent decree against Barbri, Inc. to make its online course and bar review materials accessible to blind students; participating in a successful trial against Baltimore County for failure to accommodate, and then constructively discharging, a 30-year employee with a disability; and helping to settle a case against taxicab companies in Washington, DC that refused to pick up customers with service animals.

Deepa graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 2012. She currently serves on the boards of the Disability Rights Bar Association and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and as the First Vice President of the National Association of Blind Lawyers. Deepa has served as a Commissioner on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Disability Rights, and as Co-Chair of the Employment and Economic Security Subcommittee of the Biden Disability Policy Committee during the 2020 Presidential campaign. She is an active leader and member of the National Federation of the Blind, a civil rights advocacy organization lead by, and consisting of, blind individuals from around the country.

Bar Admissions

California · District of Columbia · US District Court for the District of Columbia

Education

  • JD, University of Michigan Law School
  • BA, Cum Laude and with high honors, University of California, Los Angeles