Wendy Olin Clendening

Wendy Clendening is an experienced civil and criminal litigator.  From 1997 to 2001, Ms. Clendening was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, where she conducted jury trials and evidentiary hearings and handled appellate matters involving various criminal matters, such as bank robberies, narcotics crimes, immigration crimes, crimes against children, crimes under the Mann Act, and RICO violations.  In private practice since 2001, Ms. Clendening expanded her practice to litigation involving contracts interpretation, corporate internal investigation, claims under the False Claims Act, and employment issues. 

Ms. Clendening received a B.A. in Law and Society, with high honors, from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1992.  She received her J.D. from the University of Southern California Law Center in 1995, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and served as Executive Editor of the Southern California Law Review. In 1995, Ms. Clendening was the USC Law Center's recipient of the American Board of Trial Advocates Award for Excellence in Preparation for Trial Practice of the Law.  From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Clendening served as a law clerk for the Hon. Ronald S.W. Lew in the Central District of California.
           
Ms. Clendening, as Wendy K. Olin, is the author of Constitutional Survival Camp:  What are the chances that the general applicability test will make it?,68 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1029 (1995).