Christina Lee represents plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes civil litigation matters, including in intellectual property disputes, complex privacy cases, and commercial litigation. Christina has secured favorable results for her clients both through winning cases early in litigation and at trial. She has obtained dismissals of entire complaints and critical claims through motion practice in several nationwide privacy class action cases. She also represented the former shareholders of FerroKin BioSciences against Shire Pharmaceuticals in a bench trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery, which awarded the firm’s clients more than $80 million, including an overdue milestone payment, attorney’s fees, and interest. Christina’s clients range from individuals and startups to major technology companies.
Christina also maintains a robust pro bono practice. In collaboration with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union, she is currently representing three immigrant families who were separated at the United States-Mexico border in 2018 in a federal lawsuit seeking damages in the Northern District of California. She has also represented several leading immigration nonprofit organizations in advocating for changes to immigration law and policy.
Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Christina served as a law clerk to Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
Christina earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and her B.A. in history, summa cum laude, from Yale. During law school, she participated in Harvard Law School's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, mediated disputes in small claims court through the Harvard Mediation Program, and co-chaired the 21st National Asian Pacific American Conference on Law and Public Policy.
Shareholder Representative Services v. Shire Pharmaceuticals
We represented Shareholder Representative Services (SRS) in its role as representative of the former shareholders of FerroKin Biosciences in a post-merger dispute with Shire Pharmaceuticals, which had refused to make a $45 million milestone payment related to the development of an experimental iron chelation drug. After a four-day bench trial, the Delaware Chancery Court entered judgment in favor of SRS, ruling in a 77-page opinion that the former FerroKin shareholders were entitled to the overdue $45 million milestone, as well as five years of interest on the payment and their attorneys’ fees and costs, which totaled more than $80 million. The judgment of the Court of Chancery was unanimously affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court.
Broadcom v. Netflix
We are defending Netflix against a 12-patent case Broadcom filed in the Central District of California. We successfully transferred the case to the Northern District of California, where it is pending before Judge James Donato. We successfully obtained rulings dismissing six of the patents as abstract under Alice, with an additional patent invalidated during inter partes review proceedings before the PTAB. We are also defending Netflix against a separate 5-patent case originally brought by Broadcom in the Eastern District of Texas. A three-judge Federal Circuit panel ordered the district court to transfer the case to the Northern District of California where it is now proceeding before Judge Edward Chen. After the transfer, the firm achieved a stay of all district court proceedings pending inter partes review proceedings before the PTAB.
McCoy v. Alphabet Inc. and Hammerling, et al. v. Google LLC
We represented Google in two putative class action lawsuits filed in the Northern District of California asserting privacy, contract, and consumer law claims regarding Google’s alleged data collection practices related to Android smartphones. After we successfully moved the court to compel the first case to arbitration, the case was filed a second time with different named plaintiffs. We moved to dismiss the second case and secured a complete dismissal with prejudice of all claims in the lawsuit.
01/18/2024
Keker, Van Nest & Peters is pleased to announce that the firm has elevated associates Andrew Bruns, Cody Gray, Maya James, Christina Lee, and Franco Muzzio to Partner, Kristen Lovin to Of Counsel and Senior IP & Technology Litigator and Hamilton Jordan to Of Counsel, effective January 1, 2024. This class marks the largest group of associates promoted to partner since the firm was founded in 1978. Read more
January 21, 2022
This 2-day program, 1/24/22 and 1/25/22, qualifies for 6 hours of general CLE credit, 1 hour of ethics credit, and 1 hour of elimination of bias credit.
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