{"id":105,"date":"2022-05-28T01:42:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T01:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:27:43","slug":"attorney-profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/index.php\/attorney-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:49% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2047\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0208-mid-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0208-mid-scaled.jpg 2047w, https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0208-mid-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0208-mid-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0208-mid-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0208-mid-1228x1536.jpg 1228w, https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0208-mid-1638x2048.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2047px) 100vw, 2047px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ankit H. Bhakta, Esq.<\/strong><br>Attorney<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>After working at prestigious law firms in Orange County and the Inland Empire for over 5 years, Ankit H. Bhakta followed his family\u2019s entrepreneurial legacy and founded BLF to provide businessowners with high-quality, cost-effective legal representation.&nbsp; With a background in hospitality, he knows full well the legal needs and challenges of California businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ankit took this business background and went on to graduate from UCLA in under 4 years with a major and two minors, along with obtaining work experience as a congressional and legal intern.&nbsp; Ankit then graduated from USC Gould School of Law, completing certificate programs in both Business Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution.&nbsp; In addition to obtaining experience working directly with an esteemed district and appellate judge as a judicial extern, Ankit was selected to serve on the Mediation Clinic while at USC, drawing the praise of several judges for his success in resolving cases.&nbsp; In fact, Ankit received the Volunteer of the Month Award in recognition for outstanding service as a mediator for the Court program.&nbsp; Ankit was also selected to the Jessup Moot Court team at USC, which received an award for having one of the best Written Briefs at the regional competition held in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Ankit passed the California Bar Exam on his first try and began practicing law and learning under prominent attorneys in Orange County and the Inland Empire.&nbsp; Ankit was soon working directly with one of the preeminent trial attorneys in the Inland Empire en route to an undefeated trial record and many other litigation successes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ankit was also nominated and selected as a SuperLawyer\u2014Rising Star for the past six years (2021-2026).\u00a0 On April 1, 2022, Ankit founded Bhakta Law Firm and hopes to channel his intellect and skills to ensure that businessowners in California have access to high quality legal representation, at an affordable cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><br>University of Southern California Gould School of Law, JD, 2016<br>University of California, Los Angeles, BA, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Admissions<\/strong><br>The State Bar of California<br>United States District Court (Central and Northern Districts of California)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator alignwide has-text-color has-ast-global-color-0-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-ast-global-color-0-background-color has-background is-style-wide border-1px\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:49% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1200px-CalBarSeal.svg_-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1200px-CalBarSeal.svg_-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1200px-CalBarSeal.svg_-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1200px-CalBarSeal.svg_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1200px-CalBarSeal.svg_-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1200px-CalBarSeal.svg_.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:150px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":146,"href":"https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhaktalawfirm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}