Aseem Mehta

Aseem Mehta represents clients in high-stakes litigation in federal and state courts. Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, he was a litigation staff attorney at the Asian Law Caucus, litigating class actions, habeas petitions, and civil rights cases in collaboration with individuals challenging their confinement in state custody and federal immigration detention. He has experience deploying multi-method approaches to advocacy through his work as a fellow with the Immigrant Justice Corps, where he combined legal representation with media strategy, documentary filmmaking, and community organizing.

Aseem served as a law clerk for Judge Richard A. Paez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Edward M. Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He earned his law degree from Yale Law School and his bachelor’s degree from Yale College, where he studied Ethics, Politics & Economics. During law school, he was a clinical law student in the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, and he served as an intern with the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California.