Hinal Patel is an associate at BHPK Law. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law and is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and North Carolina.

Before joining the firm, Hinal served as a judicial law clerk at the Boston Municipal Court, where she worked across eight divisions and assisted judges with both criminal and civil matters.

While in law school, she was a judicial intern at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the D.C. Court of Appeals and worked as a summer law clerk at a mid-size civil litigation firm. She also served as an editor on the North Carolina Law Review and was co-president of the Asian American Law Students Association. Hinal also served as a Dean's Fellow, an Honors Writing Scholar, and a member of the Student Bar Association Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

Prior to law school, Hinal graduated magna cum laude from Mercer University with degrees in International Relations and Global Development, with a minor in Political Science.

Outside the office, Hinal enjoys listening to audiobooks, discovering new coffee shops and thrift stores, and traveling.