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Amini practiced law for twenty-three years before being appointed to the bench, first as a public defender and then, beginning in 1994, in private practice at the Amini Law Firm, where she handled family law, immigration, civil, and criminal cases. She represented clients from over fifty countries of
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In 2019, Amini ruled that one of the state's most widely used child abuse experts was unqualified, leading to a review of dozens of cases in which children had wrongfully been removed from their families.
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