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SOOJIN KANG
Associate

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Phoenix: 2198 East Camelback Road, Phoenix, AZ 85016-4742 Tel. (602) 340-1234 Orange/Riverside: 600 West Santa Ana Boulevard, Santa Ana, CA 92701 Tel. (714) 437-4900 Los Angeles: 15250 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 Tel. (818) 205-9955 Ventura/Oxnard: 300 Esplanade Drive, Oxnard, CA 93030 Tel. (805)485-2275 Santa Barbara: 1226 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Tel. (805)962-4000 Utah: 2150 South 1300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 Tel. (801) 337-3997 Las Vegas: 7878 West Sahara Avenue, Las Vegas, NV 89117 Tel. (702) 562-3301 Fresno: 516 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, CA  93704-2515 Tel. (559) 221-2670 Bay Area: 1001 Bayhill Drive, Second Floor, Suite 200, San Bruno, CA 94066 Tel. (650) 616-4402 Sacramento: 2555 3rd Street,2555 3rd Street, Suite 110, Sacramento, CA  95818 Tel. (916) 475-1600 Reno: 955 South Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89502 Tel. (775) 786-6200

SOOJIN KANG is a Senior Associate of the Firm in our Sherman Oaks Office. For the fifth year in a row, Ms. Kang has been listed in the Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Star Edition as a rising star in the area of civil litigation. Less than 3% of the lawyers in Southern California received this recognition. Ms. Kang is a member of the Firm’s Employment Practice Group and Class Action Practice Group.

Ms. Kang’s experience includes:

  • Defending wage and hour and consumer class actions involving classes ranging from 75 to 5,000 members, from case inception to trial.


  • Working in the Firm’s Labor and Employment Practices Group representing management in all aspects of employment law, including wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, disability accommodation, breach of contract, independent contractor and wage and hour claims, in civil and administrative proceedings.


  • Working in the Firm’s Insurance Litigation Group, representing insurers in all aspects of insurance law, including coverage and bad faith litigation involving personal lines, commercial and life policies, “Colonial Life” discovery, and disputes involving agents and brokers.

Recent matters that Ms. Kang has handled include:
  • Defending auto and RV dealerships against claims under the Automobile Sales Finance Act, Consumers Legal Remedies Act and Unfair Competition Law.


  • Representing a publicly traded company in a state-wide wage and hour class action.


  • Representing defrauded depositors who lost their retirement savings in a $100 million ponzi scheme involving 26 U.S.C. §1031 exchanges.


AREAS OF EXPERTISE
  • General litigation

  • Bad faith and coverage

  • Employment law

  • Business litigation


EDUCATION
J.D., Loyola Law School, 2002
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1995

BAR ADMISSIONS
California

COURT ADMISSIONS
State of California

LANGUAGES
Korean


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