Kimberly focuses her practice on managing the discovery program for complex product liability and toxic tort cases as local and national counsel.
Kimberly works with the firm’s innovative and award-winning Asbestos Litigation team in helping clients manage their risk profiles and in defending large national dockets. She coordinates the discovery for thousands of cases – drafting, responding to and preparing discovery and trial support documents for complex cases throughout the nation. Knowledgeable and energetic, Kimberly is known by clients for identifying key strategies in challenging cases, then easily communicating those ideas to clients and legal teams in order to move forward with the best solutions.
Premises owners, contractors, and manufacturers are among those who appreciate that Kimberly brings to their cases a broad range of related litigation experience. Kimberly has represented clients in matters of product liability; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)/Superfund; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); California Proposition 65; and other alleged solid and liquid hazardous waste violations in response to federal and state agency inspections including California’s Department of Toxic Control Substances (DTSC).
In addition to environmental matters, Kimberly’s background in biotech startups as a research scientist gives her a unique perspective in emerging areas of law such as psychedelic therapeutics. Psychedelics have garnered headline news as breakthrough medicines for the treatment of psychiatric conditions, including PTSD and major depression. Kimberly keeps current on the academic and commercial research and drug discovery efforts in this rapidly developing field so as to assist clients in navigating and complying with complex regulatory issues and protecting and commercializing intellectual property.
Prior to her admission into the state bar, Kimberly externed with the California Attorney General’s Office.