Soojin Kang

Overview

Soojin Kang defends employers across multiple forums—state and federal courts, appellate proceedings, and administrative hearings—handling everything from PAGA representative actions to discrimination and wrongful termination claims. Her client roster spans Fortune 500 companies, public entities, and individual defendants, reflecting her ability to calibrate legal strategy to vastly different organizational structures and risk profiles. She brings depth to wage and hour class action defense and misclassification disputes, where technical payroll compliance intersects with high-stakes exposure.

What distinguishes Soojin from her peers is her cross-practice fluency developed over more than two decades of practice. Beyond employment law, she defends products liability matters and consumer class actions involving false advertising and unfair competition claims. This broader litigation background sharpens her approach to managing and resolving employment disputes, particularly when workforce issues overlap with product claims or business operations. She also counsels employers on human resource policies and compliance frameworks, translating courtroom experience into preventive guidance and best practices.

Soojin’s versatility extends to non-compete enforcement and trade secret protection, where she navigates the tension between employee mobility and legitimate business interests. Her work in first-party insurance claims and complex business litigation further demonstrates her capacity to handle multifaceted disputes that don’t fit neatly into a single practice category. Clients benefit from Soojin’s understanding of how employment issues ripple through broader organizational and commercial concerns. 

Experience

• Litigated and resolved wage and hour class actions, PAGA actions, and consumer class actions for clients in a wide variety of industries, including transportation, manufacturing, sales, insurance, consumer products, hospitality, and government contractors
• Obtained a defense verdict as second chair in a four-week jury trial for a Fortune 500 company sued by a former Director of the company, alleging wrongful termination in violation of public policy and whistleblowing
• Clawed back an insurance company’s trade secret customer data from a former agent and extracted a financial settlement secured by a confession of judgment and quitclaim deed
• Defended a manufacturer in mass tort cases brought by over eight hundred individual plaintiffs and negotiated a favorable global resolution over eight days of mediation
• Expanded the enforceability of arbitration agreements containing class action waivers through litigation and appeals in multiple class actions, resulting in the seminal California Supreme Court decision, Sanchez v. Valencia Holding Co., LLC (2015) 61 Cal.4th 899

Professional

• California State Bar

Community

Soojin serves as volunteer settlement officer for employment disputes in the Los Angeles Superior Court.