Adeel Mohammadi

Mr. Mohammadi’s practice focuses on high-stakes complex litigation and investigations.

Prior to joining Munger Tolles, Mr. Mohammadi was a litigator at a major law firm in Washington D.C. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable José A. Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to the Honorable Jesse M. Furman of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. In 2022, he was awarded the Temple Bar Scholarship by the American Inns of Court.

Mr. Mohammadi received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was awarded the Israel H. Peres Prize for the best student publication appearing in the Yale Law Journal. While in law school, Mr. Mohammadi was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal and worked in the civil division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. At Yale, he also served as a Coker Fellow and taught undergraduate and graduate seminars in classical Arabic.

Mr. Mohammadi received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from the University of Southern California in biology and religious studies, with minors in economics and Middle Eastern studies. He also holds a master’s of theological studies in Islamic studies from the Harvard Divinity School, where he was a Dean’s Scholar and received the Stendahl Prize for conversations across religious boundaries.

Mr. Mohammadi also is a lecturer at the USC Gould School of Law.