Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that partners Jane Hinton and Jason Kim were recently honored as Diversity & Inclusion Visionaries in The Los Angeles Times’ annual Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility magazine. The magazine recognizes the region’s diverse business leaders who inspire change – those who exhibit achievements both within their organizations and the community at large through actionable programs and initiatives impacting diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.

As a partner on the Capital Finance & Real Estate Team, Hinton brings a broad range of experience to commercial real estate and finance transactions, representing investors, financial institutions, investment funds, and other clients in single-asset and portfolio transactions nationally. She also serves as Office Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Leader Co-Chair for the firm’s Los Angeles office, and in this role has worked to promote engagement opportunities and educational programs on diversity with the goal of fostering greater awareness and understanding of important issues on social justice and racial and gender equality and promoting a culture of diversity and inclusion within the firm. Hinton is the point-of-contact for the Los Angeles Office Women’s Mentoring Circle and has arranged several networking events as well as more formal training on quick elevator pitches that women in law can use for value propositioning and career advancement. She is also an active participant in the Project Destined program, a firm partnership, that brings together underprivileged diverse youth with leading executives to evaluate live real estate deals in their community and present them in a pitch competition.

As partner on the Commercial Litigation Team, Kim’s practice focuses on class action defense and other complex commercial litigation in the data breach, financial services and consumer contexts. He has litigated multiple highly publicized data breach class actions, financial services class actions and consumer class actions for a broad spectrum of Fortune 500 companies. He routinely serves as litigation counsel to one of the largest social media companies in the world in an array of matters relating to the company’s various platforms. As the Office Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Leader Co-Chair for the Los Angeles office, Kim works to promote the firm’s educational programs on diversity and inclusion. Kim is engaged in the firm’s Asian American Pacific Heritage Month programs and recently initiated a panel discussion among other AAPI partners on career development for young lawyers aspiring to make partner. He prioritizes mentorship, providing insights and guidance to a number of associates and helping them grow as lawyers. He is also an advocate for diversity in the teams he assembles to advise high profile clients, implementing the firm’s belief that a diverse and inclusive workforce optimizes the delivery of outstanding client service and creates a more innovative community of lawyers and staff.

View the full list of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Visionaries, along with individual profiles.