Los Angeles Times Recognizes Jason Kim and Julia Trankiem as Diversity & Inclusion Visionaries
November 27, 2023
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that counsel Jason Kim and partner Julia Trankiem were recently honored as Diversity & Inclusion Visionaries in The Los Angeles Times’ third annual Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility magazine. The magazine recognizes the region’s diverse business leaders who inspire change – those who exhibit achievements both within their organizations and the community at large through actionable programs and initiatives impacting diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
Kim’s practice focuses on class action defense and other complex commercial litigation in the data breach, financial services and consumer contexts. He has litigated multiple highly publicized data breach class actions, financial services class actions and consumer class actions for a broad spectrum of Fortune 500 companies. Among other things, Kim has served as litigation counsel in class actions involving the largest reported data breaches in history, and he has been recognized in one of the Top Defense Verdicts in California after obtaining a complete dismissal of a data breach class action filed against one of the largest retailers worldwide. He routinely serves as litigation counsel to one of the largest social media companies in the world in an array of matters relating to the company’s various platforms. Kim also serves as an editor of the firm’s Retail Industry Blog, to which he regularly contributes. He was recognized by the Los Angeles Business Journal as a 2023 “Leader of Influence: Minority Attorney.”
Defending management in a broad range of employment matters, Trankiem collaborates and partners with companies to solve complex employment issues. She has represented employers across wide-ranging industries in class, collective, representative and hybrid actions brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage and hour laws. Trankiem’s wage and hour experience includes litigation involving claims of misclassification, off-the-clock work and unpaid overtime, and meal and rest period violations. She was named among the “Leaders of Influence: Minority Attorneys” by Los Angeles Business Journal in 2021 and 2022, and has been listed as a California Labor and Employment Star by Benchmark Litigation for the last four years.