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Kevin M. Fong

Retired Partner
San Francisco

Retired Partner, San Francisco

T: +1.415.983.1270
T: +1.415.983.1270
Attracts praise for his ‘amazing advocacy style’ and ‘broad strategic view’” and is “recognized by peers as being one of the most talented appellate attorneys in California.
—Chambers USA

Kevin Fong has helped Pillsbury shape the law and establish important precedents for more than four decades.

A former president of the prestigious California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Kevin has appeared in 135 published decisions in California and federal appellate courts, and won five of six California Supreme Court arguments.

Representative Experience

  • Achieved precedent-setting win in the Ninth Circuit, which held that state and local governments may not tax permanent improvements on land held by the U.S. in trust for an Indian tribe.
  • Successfully secured Ninth Circuit’s affirmance of a judgment following a jury’s finding of infringement of our client’s “Comic-Con” trademarks and an award of nearly $4 million in attorney’s fees.
  • Obtained a California Supreme Court reversal of a $6 million libel judgment against a newspaper that published articles asserting misconduct in conviction of a Chinatown gang murderer.

Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School
    cum laude, Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review

    A.B., Harvard College
    magna cum laude

Admissions

  • California

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