Charlotte Kamai represents clients in all facets of commercial litigation, with a strong foundation in public interest law, civil rights, and complex litigation. Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Charlotte served as a law clerk for Judge William H. Orrick III of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and Judge John B. Owens of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Charlotte earned her law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law, where she served as Senior Articles Editor for the California Law Review and Managing Editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. She gained hands-on experience through various internships and externships focused on public interest law, including with the California Attorney General’s Civil Rights Enforcement Section and the East Bay Community Law Center’s Health and Welfare Program.
Charlotte earned her bachelor’s degree cum laude in Government with a minor in Arabic language from Dartmouth College. While pursuing her degree, she was an NCAA Division 1 Swim Team Captain and a three-time Academic All-Ivy athlete.
We represent taxpayer and immigrant advocates in filing suit against the government to halt ICE from accessing protected taxpayer data. The court issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting ICE and DHS from using or viewing the protected taxpayer information they had already illegally received. The relief is rare and indicates how serious the privacy violations are.
We are challenging the inclusion of a “loyalty question” seeking fealty to the Trump-Vance administration on thousands of federal civil service job applications. The case alleges violations of the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act. The court heard our motion for preliminary injunction.
Unions argued before a Massachusetts federal judge that the Trump administration's hiring practices pressure applicants to pledge loyalty to the president's political agenda, and urged the court to block a controversial question appearing in federal job applications, reports Law360. Read more
In a win for immigrants’ rights advocates, a federal judge in Massachusetts blocked the IRS and Treasury Department from sharing taxpayer data and address information with the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, reported Bloomberg and Law360. Read more
Law.com featured Keker, Van Nest & Peters’ filing of a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s “loyalty question” on civil service job applications, a new requirement that asks candidates to explain how they would “help advance the president’s executive orders and policy priorities.” Read more
Despite the lapse in government funding, and the furloughing of hundreds of thousands of federal workers, the government continues to post new job opportunities, with a new and unlawful essay seeking loyalty to President Trump. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), and National Association of Government Employees, Inc. (NAGE) filed a lawsuit today challenging the inclusion of a “loyalty question” seeking fealty to the Trump-Vance administration on federal civil service job applications, noting that more than 1,700 job posts have included the essay question since October 1. The unions are represented by Democracy Forward, Protect Democracy, and Keker, Van Nest and Peters LLP. Read more
At Keker, Van Nest & Peters, pro bono work is an integral part of our firm. From challenging illegal mass deportation tactics, to pushing for criminal justice reform, to fighting for the rights of individuals and families, our attorneys take up causes that encapsulate our belief that lawyers have a duty to protect the rule of law and ensure access to justice. Read more
On behalf of the Pac-12 Conference, Keker Van Nest & Peters attorneys defeated a motion to dismiss its antitrust lawsuit against the Mountain West Conference for "poaching fees" imposed by the MWC related to conference realignment. Read more
Taxpayer and immigrants’ rights advocates today filed a lawsuit asking for a block of the receipt and use of tax-related data by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from both the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Social Security Administration (SSA). Read more