About K.C.

K.C. focuses her practice on commercial and intellectual property litigation with an emphasis on consumer products and technology matters. She has experience with contract, business tort, product liability, false advertising, consumer class action and complex business disputes. K.C. also maintains an active pro bono practice, including amicus and appellate work.

K.C.’s representative matters include:

Complex business litigation

  • Representing a virtual meeting platform in a high-profile cyber insurance coverage dispute
  • Defending a VC firm in litigation against a former employee of a unicorn company regarding a securities option contract
  • Representing a TV broadcasting company in industry-wide class action antitrust litigation

Product liability litigation and advising

  • Representing clients ranging from a consumer technology product manufacturer to a health and wellness company in class action lawsuits alleging California False Advertising Law and California Unfair Competition Law claims
  • Obtaining dismissal for a fitness technology client facing breach of warranty and unfair competition allegations
  • Securing a successful resolution of a multimillion-dollar false advertising class action for a leading online advertising platform

Intellectual property and trade secret litigation

  • Defending global cosmetic companies in trade secret misappropriation litigation
  • Representing a plaintiff in false advertising and deceptive trade practices litigation stemming from an intellectual property dispute

Pro bono

  • Representing provisionally certified classes of detained persons, including medically vulnerable persons, in impact litigation against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) private prisons in southern California regarding constitutionally inadequate COVID-19 conditions
  • Representing various legal services organizations as amicus curiae on issues ranging from reproductive rights, First Amendment rights and voting rights before the US Supreme Court and California Supreme Court

K.C. clerked for US District Judges Anthony J. Battaglia and Marilyn L. Huff of the US District Court for the Southern District of California. At Harvard Law School, K.C. was an Ames Moot Court finalist, Class Marshal and recipient of the Dean’s Award for Community Leadership. Before law school, she served as a senior legislative assistant for a California congressmember in Washington, DC.

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Education

  • Harvard Law School
    JD, 2020
  • Harvard University
    BA, History of Science, cum laude, 2013

Court admissions

  • US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • US District Court for the Northern District of California
  • US District Court for the Central District of California
  • US District Court for the Southern District of California

Memberships and affiliations

  • The State Bar of California
  • American Bar Association (ABA)
  • Enright Inn of Court