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Medha Gargeya

Gargeya_Medha

Medha Gargeya

Senior Associate

Washington DC + 1 202 663 6962

Medha Gargeya is a trial and appellate litigator who focuses on complex government, regulatory, and commercial litigation. Ms. Gargeya also serves as Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School and a Captain in the US Air Force Reserves.

Prior to rejoining the firm, Ms. Gargeya served as a Counsel for the US Department of Justice’s Office of the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, where she helped craft legal strategy, reviewed briefs, and coordinated across the Department’s leadership on salient litigation. Before that, she was Associate Counsel to the Vice President of the United States, advising on matters relating to constitutional and statutory interpretation, national security, oversight, and voting.

Ms. Gargeya clerked for the Honorable Roger Wollman of the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She also worked as an adjunct professor at the University of South Dakota School of Law and a law fellow at the US Senate Judiciary Committee.

While attending law school, Ms. Gargeya was a teaching assistant in constitutional law and interned with the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, the MacArthur Justice Center Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic, and Protect Democracy. Before law school, she worked as a research analyst for The Tobin Project and a legal assistant at Google, and studied opera at the New England Conservatory.

Recognition

  • Named to the High Honor Roll of the Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, recognizing attorneys who dedicate significant pro bono service to expanding access to justice in the District of Columbia.

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Harvard Law School, 2019

      Managing Editor, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review

    • AB, Government, Harvard College, 2014

      magna cum laude

  • Admissions

    • District of Columbia

    • US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

  • Clerkships

    • The Hon. Roger Wollman, US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2019 - 2020

Credentials

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