Leslie C. Mehta

Practice Focus

• Constitutional and civil rights law
• Commercial and other complex litigation
• Election Law
• Product Liability

Professional Experience

• Associate, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, 2008-2010.
• Associate, Husch Blackwell Sanders, 2005-2008.
• Law Clerk to the Hon. Cleo E. Powell, Chesterfield Circuit Court, Chesterfield, Virginia, 2002-2003.

Education

• Howard University, J.D., 2002, Howard Law Review, Top Merit Scholarship for Academic Performance.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., English Literature, Dean’s Honors List, 1999.

Admissions

• California, as well as inactive admissions in Missouri, Kansas and Maryland.

Community Service and Distinctions

• Named one of the Top 100 Associates of Color in the United States by Stakeholder 100 (2007).
• Top Flight Award for Performance on Election Case by Husch Blackwell Sanders (2007).
• Participant in Greater Missouri Leadership Challenge (2008).
• Graduate of Kansas City Inn of Court (2007).