As a former life sciences researcher, Kimberly utilizes her ability to understand and explain complex topics to advise clients as to regulatory and legal liability issues. With a focus on litigation and discovery, she manages the discovery program for complex product liability and toxic tort cases as 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. Businesses, academic and medical research centers, premises owners, contractors, and manufacturers are among those who rely on Kimberly’s broad range of litigation and regulatory experience. As national coordinating counsel, she coordinates the discovery for thousands of cases—drafting, responding to and preparing discovery and trial support documents for complex cases throughout the nation.
Kimberly has advised clients in matters of product liability, environmental matters, and legal matters regarding Schedule I controlled substances that involve laws such as the Controlled Substances Act, healthcare and research study regulations under the California Business & Professions Code, requirements relating to DEA licensing and registration of controlled substances, CERCLA/Superfund, RCRA, California Proposition 65, and other alleged solid and liquid hazardous waste violations in response to federal and state agency inspections.
Kimberly is the co-founder and co-lead of the firm’s Psychedelic and Emerging Therapies practice group. 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.
Knowledgeable and energetic, Kimberly is known 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.
Prior to her admission into the state bar, Kimberly externed with the California Attorney General's Office.