Profile Title: Partner Location: Los Angeles Telephone: 213.617.1200 Fax: 213.617.1975 Admitted: California, 1996 Education: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1992 J.D., University of California, Hastings College of Law, 1996 Ms. Kim focuses primarily on securities and consumer class actions on behalf of defrauded investors and consumers. Ms. Kim came to Milberg Weiss from the California Department of Justice, where she was a deputy attorney general in the Consumer Law Section for six years. During her tenure as a state prosecutor, Ms. Kim prosecuted several high-profile, complex state and federal consumer fraud cases, including those against major predatory lenders, insurance companies, annuity mills, and others who engaged in unlawful and deceptive business practices. At Milberg, Ms. Kim was one of the principal attorneys responsible for petitioning and briefing two major California Supreme Court cases involving consumer rights: Branick v. Downey Savings & Loan Association, 39 Cal.4th 235 (Cal. 2006) and Pioneer Electronics (USA) v. Superior Court (Olmstead), 40 Cal.4th 360 (Cal. 2007). Ms. Kim has served as a speaker on Business and Professions Code Section 17200 and Proposition 64 for the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Mealey's Section 17200 Conference, Consumer Attorneys of California, and the American Bar Association. Ms. Kim has also taught Consumer Law as an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, is a board member of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, and was named a Southern California Rising Star in Securities Litigation by Los Angeles Magazine in 2006 and 2007.Ms. Kim is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of California, as well as the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the Eastern District, the Northern District and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. |