Prior to joining Keker & Van Nest in the fall of 2011 and completing two clerkships, Ms. Agarwal worked for several social justice initiatives. During her American Civil Liberties Union fellowship she contributed to several civil rights litigation projects, including an amicus brief for the US Supreme Court discussing the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and a brief analyzing excessive force and qualified immunity. She also served as a student attorney for both the Columbia Human Rights Clinic and the Battered Immigrant Women’s Project, as well as interned for the Majlis Legal Resource Center in Mumbai, India.
Ms. Agarwal is conversationally fluent in Hindi.
Cases of Note
Plaintiffs v. National Milk Producers Federation et al: We are defending one of the largest dairy producers in the country from an antitrust class action. Plaintiffs claim the dairy producers illegally conspired to raise market prices of milk, costing consumers $9.55 billion.
Deputy Sheriff v. County Sheriff’s Department: Over the course of many years, our client wrote letters to the editor of the local newspaper on political issues such as drug legalization and gun control. The County Sheriff’s Department disciplined him for expressing his views, claiming our client’s opinions reflected poorly on the Department. We partnered with the ACLU of Northern California to protect our client’s free speech rights by securing an injunction from a federal court in Sacramento. The Department may not discipline him for writing future letters to the editor, and must remove its past discipline from our client’s personnel file.
Awards and Honors
Columbia University School of Law
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James Kent Scholar
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Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
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Parker School Certificate of Achievement in international law
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Staff, submissions editor and symposium editor, Columbia J. of Gender and Law
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Editorial board, Moot Court
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Board member and presiding chair, Domestic Violence Project
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Board member, Amnesty International
Stanford University
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Executive director, WYSE (mentoring program for underprivileged middle school girls)
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Co-president, Saheli (Stanford South Asian Women’s Alliance)