Overview
Veena Bhatia is an associate in WSHB’s Northern California office, where she focuses on complex civil litigation. Ms. Bhatia assists on a variety of matters, zealously advocating on behalf of her clients. Truly versatile, her litigation success includes environmental torts, product liability, mass torts, wrongful death, and elder abuse.
Ms. Bhatia is a graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. While at UC Hastings, Ms. Bhatia earned a CALI Excellence for the Future Award and Witkin Award for Academic Excellence in Legal Research and Writing. She also published an article on Indian family law in the Domestic Violence Report, Civic Research Institute. Her article was republished in Family & Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly, Civic Research Institute. Additionally, Ms. Bhatia worked as a law clerk at a litigation firm while attending law school.
Prior to law school, she worked at two prominent litigation firms. She held coveted internships at several governmental agencies at the local, state, and federal levels, including the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, California Department of Justice, and the United States Department of Justice.
Ms. Bhatia received her B.A. in Legal Studies and a B.A. in Political Science with honors from the University of California, Berkeley.
Credentials
Education
- University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D., 2021)
- University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 2016)
Licensed to Practice in
- California
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- Judicial Panel of Multidistrict Litigation
Newsroom
Publications
- Diminished Access to Islamic Divorce for Domestic Violence Survivors, Domestic Violence Report, Civic Research Institute, Volume 26, Number 04, April/May 2021, p.51-52. [Republished: Diminished Access to Islamic Divorce for Domestic Violence Survivors, Family & Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly. Summer 2021, Vol. 14, Issue 1, p.47-51]
- The Ethicality of Chinese Investment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Realist and Cosmopolitan Perspective, Berkeley Student Journal of Asian Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies and the Group in Asian Studies, Fifth Edition, April 2015, p.92-108
Community
Memberships
- American Association for Justice, Member
- California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, Member
- South Asian Bar Association of Northern California (SABA-NC), Member
- Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC), Member