Joseph Mantegani

Joseph Mantegani

Joseph Mantegani is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson.

Prior to joining the firm, Joseph was a law clerk to the Honorable Andrea R. Wood and a judicial extern for the Honorable Marvin E. Aspen, both of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He was also a litigation associate and summer associate for an AmLaw 200 firm in Los Angeles, where he represented a plaintiff in a patent infringement trial seeking approximately $1 billion in damages.

Joseph earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where he was Order of the Coif and served as an articles editor of the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology. There he published the comment “Slouching Towards Autonomy: Reenvisioning Tribal Jurisdiction, Native American Autonomy, and Violence Against Women in Indian Country,” which was awarded the Lowden-Wigmore Prize for journal comment. He graduated cum laude from the University of San Francisco with a B.A. in English.

During law school, Joseph was a student attorney in Northwestern’s Supreme Court of the United States Clinic and was a research assistant to two professors.

Publications 

  • Comment: “Slouching Towards Autonomy: Reenvisioning Tribal Jurisdiction, Native American Autonomy, and Violence Against Women in Indian Country,” The Journal of Law & Criminology, Spring 2021

Publications 

  • Comment: “Slouching Towards Autonomy: Reenvisioning Tribal Jurisdiction, Native American Autonomy, and Violence Against Women in Indian Country,” The Journal of Law & Criminology, Spring 2021