NAPABA Best Under 40 Award: Kelly Matayoshi
Northern California legal powerhouse Farella Braun + Martel is proud to announce that partner Kelly M. Matayoshi was honored among 2024’s “Best Under 40” by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA).
This year NAPABA recognized 11 talented individuals within the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) legal community under the age of 40 who have achieved prominence and distinction in their field. Awardees are selected on demonstrated success and professionalism in the practice of law and commitment to the AANHPI community. View this year’s “Best Under 40” awardees here.
Law.com and The Recorder recently named Kelly a “Lawyers on the Fast Track” winner as part of the 2024 California Legal Awards.
Kelly represents a broad range of companies in complex business and employment litigation. She has extensive experience defending clients in the consumer products space with a focus on products liability claims, contract disputes, and breach of fiduciary duty disputes. In her employment practice, she represents employers on a range of causes of action, including wrongful termination and class action wage and hour disputes in court and before administrative agencies. Kelly is president-elect of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. She also serves on the UC Law San Francisco Board of Trustees and advisory board for its Center for Litigation and Courts and on the San Francisco Superior Court Committee on the Elimination of Bias. She has served as president of the Barristers Club of the Bar Association of San Francisco and as a managing director of the ABA Section of Litigation. Kelly received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings).
Farella Braun + Martel is a leading Northern California law firm representing corporate and private clients in sophisticated business and real estate transactions and complex commercial, civil, and criminal litigation. Clients seek our imaginative legal solutions and the dynamism and intellectual creativity of our lawyers. We are headquartered in San Francisco and maintain an office in the Napa Valley focused on the wine industry.
Contact:
Cheryl Loof
Farella Braun + Martel LLP
415.954.4433 / [email protected]
