Mona Kaveh

Mona Kaveh is a partner at Kemp Jones, LLP and practices primarily in the area of complex commercial litigation. Based upon her exceptional advocacy and legal accomplishments, she has been named one of America’s Top 100 Attorneys, a lifetime achievement award given to less than one-half percent of attorneys in the United States. She was also named a Mountain States Rising Star by Super Lawyers in 2020, 2021, and 2022. 
 
Mona also dedicates a portion of her practice to pro bono legal services. She is actively involved with the Children’s Attorneys Project through the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, where she represents abused and neglected children who are placed in foster care. In 2017, she received the Legal Aid Center's Myrna Williams Children’s Pro Bono Award and, in 2018, she received the organization’s highest award of Pro Bono Attorney of the Year. In 2019, Mona was one of three individuals in the United States to receive the prestigious American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award and was also presented with a proclamation from the Clark County Board of Commissioners that same year. In 2020, the William S. Boyd School of Law presented Mona with its highest public interest award, the Silver Staircase Award.

Mona was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Media Studies with a Criminal Justice minor from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on a full-tuition scholarship. Mona graduated early with an Honors diploma and a magna cum laude designation. She obtained her Juris Doctorate degree from the William S. Boyd School of Law. Mona is admitted to practice law before the state and federal courts of Nevada, the state courts of California, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Clark County Bar Association, the Nevada Justice Association, and the Young Lawyers Section of the State Bar of Nevada. Mona is also a 2018 graduate of Leadership Las Vegas, a premier community leadership program offered by the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce for professionals who want to make a positive impact in the community.