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 general litigation category.
A digital compilation of Lawyers on the Fast Track profiles is available on Law.com (subscription required). Excerpts from Lee’s responses are included below.
Please describe your practice area and any leadership positions you’ve taken on at your firm or in the broader legal community.
My practice focuses on high-stakes litigation. I represent leading technology innovators in complex privacy litigation, patent infringement lawsuits, and copyright matters involving technologies as varied as AI, digital advertising tools, video streaming, mobile operating systems, and medical devices.
I am also deeply committed to pro bono advocacy. I represented three immigrant families who were separated at the United States-Mexico border in 2018 in a Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit and helped secure for them the largest settlement out of nearly 50 similar cases filed nationwide.
Within Keker, I am the Chair of the Diversity Scholars Committee, which selects several law school students each year to receive substantial scholarship grants and professional mentoring. I am also a member of the firm’s Hiring Committee and an active mentor to many talented associates.
What are three significant matters you’ve worked on in the last year?
I represent Google, LinkedIn, Twilio, and Dialpad in numerous privacy class action lawsuits and have achieved dismissals of multiple high-exposure actions in the past year. The claims attempt to repurpose decades-old statutes—like the California Invasion of Privacy Act and the Video Privacy Protection Act—into blunt instruments against modern technologies, and if accepted would dramatically expand liability far beyond anything those statutes were designed to address.
I am co-counsel with the ACLU foundations of California in a class action lawsuit challenging unlawful immigration enforcement practices in the Eastern District of California. We are defending a preliminary injunction halting suspicionless stops and warrantless arrests—which violate the rights of U.S. citizens and immigrants alike—and are litigating to hold the aggressive and indiscriminate enforcement actions accountable to the Constitution and federal law.
I also defended Netflix in a sweeping 12-patent, multi-billion-dollar campaign brought by Broadcom targeting video streaming technology—securing the invalidation of nine patents and forcing Broadcom to abandon the rest.
What’s something about you that we wouldn’t learn from LinkedIn or your law firm bio?
Before I embarked on my legal career, I was a competitive classical pianist for many years.
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