Overview

PRACTICE AREAS:
Commercial Litigation
Corporate and Securities Litigation

Lisa Yang is a partner in the litigation group, where her practice is focused on business and commercial litigation. In addition to handling complex commercial and contract disputes, Ms. Yang has significant experience with the defense of employment discrimination claims, wage and hour litigation, contests for corporate control, investment fraud, commercial landlord-tenant disputes, and securities class action litigation. Her practice spans both state and federal courts.

Ms. Yang is known as an effective communicator who earns the respect of her clients and opposing counsel through frank and firm advocacy. Ms. Yang speaks and reads Korean fluently. Her communication skills and sensitivity to cultural issues have helped her advocate for a diverse group of clients, including major U.S. corporations, the Republic of Korea, foreign corporations with business dealings in the United States, nonprofit religious entities, and elderly victims of World War II atrocities and Korean War veterans. Ms. Yang’s cases include:

• Defense of employers from claims of wage and hour violations, sex, age, or national origin discrimination, and wrongful termination;
• Representation of plaintiffs in numerous securities class action lawsuits, including In re Tenet Healthcare Securities Litigation, which resulted in a settlement in favor of the plaintiffs of over $200 million;
• Defense of the Republic of Korea in a commercial claim for over $200 million, resulting in a dismissal;
• Prosecution of cross-border investment fraud claims in excess of $14 million; and
• Defense of wrongful death and premises liability claims.

Ms. Yang served as the President of the Korean American Bar Association of Southern California in 2007, has been a board member of the Center for the Pacific American Family since 2008, and currently serves as the Secretary of the International Association of Korean Lawyers, Overseas Chapter.

Ms. Yang received her J. D. from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2000, and her B. A. in Economics from Occidental College in 1997.

Education

• University of San Diego School of Law (J.D., 2000)
• Occidental College (B.A., Economics 1997)

Admissions

• California, 2000
• U.S. District Courts: Central District of California, Northern District of California, Southern District of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Memberships

• Korean American Bar Association of Southern California Board of Governors, 2003-present; president-elect, 2006
• Los Angeles County Bar Association
• Association of Business Trial Lawyers
• Occidental College Board of Governors
• Center for the Pacific Asian Family,
  Board of Directors

Languages

• Korean