Rhidaya “Rhiya” Trivedi, Associate

Some of Rhiya’s very first words spoken, as a tiny human, were “that’s not fair!” (See photographic evidence, to the right.) From then until now, Rhiya has tried, but mostly failed, to resist all manner of unfairness, bullying, and misuses of power.

Rhiya was trained in the Immigrant Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law, and is a proud member of the community of volunteer lawyers supporting the Parole Preparation Project. Upon graduation from NYU Law, Rhiya gave a speech! You can watch it here.

People often ask Rhiya how she met Ron. Rhiya likes to direct people to this page. The story goes that on April 14, 2015, Rhiya was required by NYU to complete a mock oral argument, and had been assigned to do so at the Law Office of Ronald L. Kuby (Ron had volunteered to judge an argument). After the argument, The next day, Ron offered Rhiya a 2016 summer internship, described as “tons of responsibility, no thanks, no pay.” Obviously, Rhiya accepted.

Ron and Rhiya spent the summer of 2016 together, working on wrongful convictions of all kinds, trying to out-smart-ass one another, and increasingly developing the feeling that they were of ‘one mind and two bodies.’ When Ron got fired from the radio and Rhiya graduated from law school, the two united in full time law practice.

Today, while continuing to fight wrongful convictions of all kinds, Ron and Rhiya have many side projects: a curling league for small radical law firms; a podcast entitled “Thoughts I’ve Thought”; a law review article about how everyone should be accompanied by their demographic opposite; and, the search for the perfect police precinct in which to play charades. Since adopting Law Dog Jack in January 2019, Ron and Rhiya also spend a lot of time in a puppy pile.

Rhiya is admitted to practice in the Appellate Division, First Department, the Southern, Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of New York, and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.