Lai L. Yip

Ms. Yip is an associate in the Business Trial practice group in the firm's San Francisco office.

Areas of Practice

Ms. Yip has a commercial litigation practice, with experience in consumer class action litigation alleging various business torts and violations of the Consumers Legal Remedies Act, Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act, and California's Unfair Competition Law, Business and Professions Code section 17200. She also handles real estate breach of contract disputes.

Ms. Yip has experience drafting a wide range of pleading papers, including initial pleadings, dispositive motions, motions in limine, motions for attorneys' fees, jurisdictional challenges and ex parte applications. She also has experience propounding and responding to discovery (including extensive interviews of document custodians), enforcing judgments, and researching and conducting sophisticated legal research. Ms. Yip is a member of the firm's E-Discovery Team. She manages complex and large-scale electronic discovery projects.

Ms. Yip also provides pro bono services, including helping a family adopt a child through the Los Angeles non-profit Public Counsel, helping a San Francisco children's school obtain funds to keep the school operational, and drafting an amicus curiae letter to the California Supreme Court urging their review of a decision impacting Alameda County's administration of its General Assistance program.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Ms. Yip worked as a reporter on Pacific Time and as an associate producer on Michael Krasny's Forum, both public radio programs produced out of the studios of San Francisco NPR-affiliate KQED. Prior to that, Ms. Yip programmed software in the Computer Graphics department and Motion Capture department at George Lucas' special effects company Industrial Light and Magic. She is credited in Ang Lee's The Hulk and Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black II.

Education

• J.D., Boston University, 2008; Staff, American Journal of Law and Medicine
• University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, Visiting Student, 2007
• B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 2000, Computer Science, Dean's List

Clerkships

• Interned for the Honorable Daniel Chun of the Kings County Supreme Court, New York, NY, 2006

Admissions

• California
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Languages

• Cantonese

Articles

Class Action Defense Strategy Law Blog Articles

• "Court of Appeal Reminds Litigants That Settling With Named Plaintiff Does Not Necessarily End Putative Class Action," January 3, 2012