Los Angeles Business Journal Names Two California Attorneys to “Thriving in Their 40s” List

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is proud to announce that Partner Julia Trankiem and Counsel Jason Kim were selected from a record number of nominees to be recognized on the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2023 Leaders of Influence: Thriving in Their 40s list. This feature “honors the region’s most impressive professionals across several key categories of trusted advisors,” including real estate, law, education, healthcare, philanthropy, finance and technology.

Defending management in a broad range of employment matters, Trankiem collaborates and partners with companies to address complex employment issues. She has represented employers across wide-ranging industries in class, collective, representative and hybrid actions brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage and hour laws. Trankiem’s wage and hour experience includes litigation involving claims of misclassification, off-the-clock work and unpaid overtime, and meal and rest period violations. She was named among the “Leaders of Influence: Minority Attorneys” by Los Angeles Business Journal in 2021 and 2022, and has been listed as a California Labor and Employment Star by Benchmark Litigation for the last four years. She was most recently recognized as a Diversity & Inclusion Visionary in the Los Angeles Times’ 2023 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility magazine.

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. Among other things, Kim has served as litigation counsel in class actions involving the largest reported data breaches in history, and he has been recognized in one of the Top Defense Verdicts in California after obtaining a complete dismissal of a data breach class action filed against one of the largest retailers worldwide. 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. Kim also serves as an editor of the firm’s Retail Industry Blog, to which he regularly contributes. He was recognized by the Los Angeles Business Journal as a 2023 “Leader of Influence: Minority Attorney,” and was named a 2023 Diversity & Inclusion Visionary in the Los Angeles Times’ Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility magazine.

A full list of Leaders of Influence: Thriving in Their 40s honorees can be seen here.