Prachi Mehta

Prachi Mehta was the first fellow appointed to Texas Law’s Academic Fellowships program, a two-year program supporting emerging scholars who aspire to join the legal academy as tenure-track faculty members. As an academic fellow and visiting lecturer, she focuses on patent research and teaches a seminar on patent and drug law.

From 2016-17, Mehta clerked for Magistrate Judge K. Nicole Mitchell of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Tyler and practiced at Winston & Strawn LLP in Chicago before and after her clerkship. She later worked as a litigation associate at firms in Redwood City, California, and opened her own practice in 2022.

Mehta earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from UCLA and J.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law in 2015, where she served as a research assistant to Assistant Dean Melissa Wasserman. In her final year of law school, Mehta earned the Rickert Award for Excellence in Legal Writing, a prestigious honor at the school recognizing excellence in student achievement.