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Azeezat Adeleke works in the media and entertainment practice group, concentrating on First Amendment, defamation, intellectual property, and other litigation issues. She also has experience handling False Claims Act investigations, depositions, and Section 1983 matters. Before joining DWT, Azeezat worked at a litigation-focused firm in the capital. She also clerked for federal judges on the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Admitted to Practice
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District of Columbia
Education
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J.D., Stanford Law School, 2022
- Editor, Stanford Law Review
- Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
- Judicial Co-chair, American Constitution Society
- Board Member, First Generation & Low-Income Professionals
- Black Law Students Association
- Phi Beta Kappa
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B.A., Political Science, Yale University, 2017, summa cum laude
- Percival Wood Clement Prize
Background
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- Law Clerk, Hon. Cornelia Pillard, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, 2024-2025
- Associate, WilmerHale, Washington, D.C., 2023-2024
- Law Clerk, Hon. J. Paul Oetken, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2022-2023
- Summer Associate, Ballard Spahr, New York, 2020, 2021
- 1L Diversity Fellow in Media Law, The New York Times, New York, 2020