Christina Lee represents plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes litigation. She focuses her practice on intellectual property disputes, complex privacy cases, and commercial litigation.

Christina has extensive experience defending major technology clients in cutting-edge privacy class action cases. She has represented leading firms in high-profile patent litigation matters involving artificial intelligence, video streaming, and medical devices. 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 also maintains a robust pro bono practice. In collaboration with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union, she represented 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 and the team received a 2025 California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) Award from the Daily Journal in recognition of their work.

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.

Cases of Note

  • Broadcom v. Netflix

    We defended Netflix against a 12-patent case Broadcom filed in the Central District of California. After transferring the case to the Northern District of California, we successfully invalidated 9 patents…

  • Freund v. Dialpad and Terrill v. Dialpad

    We are defending Dialpad in state and federal court against putative class actions that seek to apply California’s wiretapping law to AI-powered call technology. In state court, we won a…

  • 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…

  • In re: Google Location History Litigation

    We defended Google in consolidated cases on behalf of a worldwide putative class of mobile device users that are challenging Google’s location-data practices. We obtained a dismissal at the pleading…

  • 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…

  • Wilbur P.G. v. USA

    We represented three immigrant families intentionally separated by the Trump Administration in 2018. Asserting novel claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act, we vigorously pursued the case until the eve…

  • United Farm Workers v. Noem

    We serve as co-counsel with the ACLU foundations of California in a putative class action challenging unlawful immigration enforcement practices by the U.S. Border Patrol in the Eastern District of…

News & Events

Presentations

“AI and the New Wave of Privacy & Cybersecurity Litigation,” Association of Corporate Counsel’s Privacy Summit, May 2026