AIMEE DUDOVITZ specializes in election law, education law, and public law.  Her election law practice includes both litigation and overseeing compliance with campaign finance and reporting requirements.  Ms. Dudovitz has advised candidates for local, state, and federal office, as well as recall and general purpose committees.  Ms. Dudovitz has experience litigating cases involving the constitutionality of ballot measures, ballot arguments, recounts, and election contests.  Her education law practice includes litigating matters on behalf of the Los Angeles Unified School District and representing Centinela Valley Union High School District before the California State Board of Education.  Ms. Dudovitz also has experience advising government agencies on constitutional and public policy matters.  She has worked on matters before the trial, appellate, and Supreme Courts in both the California and federal court systems.   

Prior to joining Strumwasser & Woocher, Ms. Dudovitz was an associate at the law firm of Irell & Manella, where she was part of the team that successfully defended the California State Senate in an action under the federal Constitution and the Voting Rights Act challenging the district lines for Congress and the State Senate following the 2000 census.  Ms. Dudovitz was also part of the Irell team that represented NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund as amicus curiae in support of the petitioners in the United States Supreme Court in the landmark case of Lawrence v. Texas, 123 S. Ct. 2472 (2003).  Before joining Strumwasser & Woocher, Ms. Dudovitz also worked at the Law Office of David C. Codell, where her practice included civil rights and entertainment litigation.  

Ms. Dudovitz graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a B.A. in politics and philosophy.  She earned her law degree from the University of California at Davis, where she served as an Articles Editor for the U.C. Davis Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif.  After graduating from law school, Ms. Dudovitz served as a law clerk to the Honorable Harry Pregerson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to the Honorable Dean D. Pregerson of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

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