Jessica L. Vived joined Wanger Jones Helsley as an associate in 2024. Ms. Vived received her Juris Doctor with a specialization in environmental law from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. Ms. Vived was awarded the Clinical Legal Education Association’s Outstanding Clinic Student Award for excellence is clinical fieldwork for her work in UCLA Law’s California Environmental Legislation & Policy Clinic and the Food Law and Policy Clinic.
During her law school career, Ms. Vived worked as a law clerk for the Fresno County Public Defender’s Office and a research assistant for Stephen R. Munzer, Distinguished Research Professor of Law at UCLA. Ms. Vived, while a student in the aforementioned clinics, also assisted in drafting legislation currently pending in the California State Senate related to outdoor heat standards.
Ms. Vived graduated with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara with her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy with an emphasis in Ethics and Public Policy and a minor in Professional Editing in 2019.
Joshua P. Jendian joined Wanger Jones Helsley PC as an associate in 2024. Mr. Jendian graduated with his Juris Doctor, Order of the Coif, from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. In 2021, Mr. Jendian graduated, cum laude, from California State University, Sacramento with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in Economics.
Mr. Jendian was born and raised in Clovis, California. Prior to law school, Mr. Jendian interned at the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office in the MAGEC Gang Unit. During his first summer of law school, he authored an article published in the University of the Pacific Law Review and worked as a research assistant for Law Professor Nadia Banteka. His next summer was spent working as a law clerk at Wanger Jones Helsley PC. In his third year, Mr. Jendian was a member of the Moot Court Honors Board and traveled to Washington D.C. for the National Veterans Law Moot Court Competition, reaching the Semi-Finals and winning Best Petitioner’s Brief. He also successfully chaired the committee tasked with coordinating McGeorge’s 2024 1L Moot Court Competition. During his last semester of law school, Mr. Jendian also worked in McGeorge’s Bankruptcy Legal Clinic.
