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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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Keker Team Receives Litigator of the Week Shout-Out for Defeating Claims Against Google
Keker, Van Nest & Peters received a Litigator of the Week Shout-Out from in Law.com’s Litigation Daily column for helping Google defeat claims targeting its AI-powered customer service technology. The recog…
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Keker Helps Google Defeat Eavesdropping Claims Over AI Customer Service Calls
Keker, Van Nest & Peters won a significant victory for Google in a proposed class action alleging that Google’s AI customer service tools recorded calls and used them to train AI models in violation of the Cali…
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California Powerhouse: Keker, Van Nest & Peters
Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP partners helped Google and Netflix beat major patent litigation in the past year, while representing OpenAI and other tech companies in precedent-setting IP cases, and fostering a st…
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Law360 Rising Star: Keker’s Christina Lee
Christina Lee of Keker Van Nest &Peters LLP secured several defense wins in a wave of privacy litigation targeting new technologies, including high-profile class actions in the past year for companies like …
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California Legal Awards Honors Christina Lee as Lawyer on the Fast Track in Litigation
The Recorder announced winners of the 2026 California Legal Awards on Wednesday. Keker, Van Nest & Peters partner Christina Lee was among the 2026 Lawyers on the Fast Track. She was one of five finalists in the…
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Four Partners Named Among Lawdragon’s Next Generation
Keker, Van Nest & Peters is proud to announce that partners Cody Gray, Bailey Heaps, Katie Lynn Joyce, Christina Lee have been named among the 2026 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation.
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Keker Partners Christina Lee and Rachael Meny Recognized by 2026 California Legal Awards
Keker, Van Nest & Peters partner Christina Lee has been named an honoree for Lawyers on the Fast Track and partner Rachael Meny has been named an honoree for Women Leaders in Tech Law as part of the 2026 Califo…
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Court Finds Border Patrol Violated Federal Court Order During Sacramento Raids
Yesterday, a federal district court ruled that the U.S. Border Patrol violated a prior court order during a July 2025 immigration operation in Sacramento, finding that agents conducted stops without reasonable …
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Border Patrol Defied Injunction With Suspicionless Arrests, Judge Finds
A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Border Patrol violated a court order during a July 2025 operation at a Sacramento Home Depot, finding that agents unlawfully detained 11 day laborers without reasonable suspi…
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Judge Refuses to Stay Lawsuit Over Border Patrol Tactics in Bakersfield Operation
A federal judge has refused to halt litigation challenging U.S. Border Patrol enforcement tactics in California’s Central Valley, allowing the case to proceed despite the government’s pending appeal. The lawsui…
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S.F. Court Rejects Claims That Dialpad’s AI Enhancements Violate Wiretapping Law
In a first-of-its kind ruling, a California state court rejected a class action lawsuit against Dialpad, Inc., ruling that the company did not violate privacy or wiretapping laws by using artificial intelligenc…
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Keker Joins ABA in Celebrating Pro Bono Work
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 a…
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Clay Award Honors Landmark Settlements for Families Separated by Trump-Era Policy
In a landmark legal victory, three immigrant families have secured sizable settlements from the U.S. government for trauma suffered during family separations at the southern border in 2018. The settlement, anno…
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Keker, Van Nest & Peters Promotes New Partners and Of Counsel
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 …
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Google Escapes Revised ‘LockBox’ Privacy Dispute For Good
A California federal judge has permanently tossed a proposed class action accusing Google of using a secret program called “Android Lockbox” to unlawfully collect data from non-Google apps on Android devices, f…
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Keker, Van Nest & Peters CLE Workshop 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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Presentations
“AI and the New Wave of Privacy & Cybersecurity Litigation,” Association of Corporate Counsel’s Privacy Summit, May 2026