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Vaidehi Mehta is a lawyer and writer for FindLaw.
A graduate of the University of Chicago, Vaidehi got her legal education at the University of Michigan Law School, where she was on the editorial board of the gender and law journal and a Dean's Scholar. Vaidehi has been an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Washington and a judicial clerk at the Oregon Court of Appeals. She has also volunteered at the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project.
Most of all, Vaidehi likes to write about the law. She’s found her happy place writing content for FindLaw's Constitution pages, legal news blogs, and resource articles. Nerd for the law that she is, Vaidehi likes to focus on complicated cases with deep legal questions, issues of first impression, questions before the U.S. Supreme Court, and constitutional conundrums.
When she’s not writing about the law, Vaidehi likes to pretend to work on her adapted screenplay. But more often, she travels, sings (badly), paints, exercises (with varying degrees of success), and reads.
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