Kevin Rising

Kevin D. Rising

Office Managing Partner, Commercial Litigation Co-Chair, Consumer Class Action Defense Co-Chair

Kevin Rising represents Fortune 500 companies, large privately held enterprises and high net worth individuals in complex commercial litigation and other high-stakes disputes. As lead trial counsel and national counsel, Kevin advocates for the resolution of his clients’ most significant cases in state and federal courts across the country.

Kevin represents clients in the full spectrum of business disputes, with deep experience leading large-scale litigation. He leads litigation teams in consumer class actions, product liability and toxic torts, labor and employment litigation, and multidistrict litigation. He also advises on contract disputes, partnership and fiduciary litigation, and business torts. His decades-long experience in trying cases to verdict includes representing both plaintiffs and defendants in jury trials, bench trials and arbitrations.

Representing clients across many industries, Kevin advocates for major players in the hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, technology and telecommunications, consumer products, retail and chemical compounds fields, among others.

His experience in high-profile cases includes his representation of a preeminent amusement park owner and operator in a multimillion-dollar product liability jury trial, recognized as one of the top defense verdicts of the year by The National Law Journal. Kevin also was trial counsel for a Silicon Valley software executive defendant in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement action alleging securities and accounting fraud. The Daily Journal deemed it one of the annual top 10 defense verdicts in California.

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Every step toward dispute resolution is made with an eye for conserving client resources and advancing their business objectives."
Credentials

Education

  • UCLA School of Law, J.D., member of National Moot Court team, recipient, of Award for Excellence in Preparation for Trial Practice of the Law from American Board of Trial Advocates
  • University of California, Irvine, B.A.

Bar Admissions

  • California

Court Admissions

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