Kathy Kizer
About Kathy Kizer
An exceptional researcher and writer, Kathy has litigated, handled appeals, researched, and written about a wide variety of substantive law, including financial services, troubled credits, corporate and professional fiduciary duty law, real property taxation, administrative mandamus, the federal Administrative Procedures Act, environmental laws (CEQA, Safe Drinking Water Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act), arbitration, antitrust, RICO, employment/wrongful termination law, insurance and bad faith, constitutional law (including commerce clause, supremacy clause, fourth amendment search and seizure, due process clause, Act of State doctrine, first amendment freedom of speech and religion, and second amendment), and general tort and contract principles. Kathy has represented clients as plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts, appeals, and arbitration in California, Texas, Ohio, New York, Georgia, Florida, and Ohio. Clients have included cities, water utilities, regional, national and international banks, investment funds, public and private corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, a tax credit syndicator, real estate developers, a court-appointed receiver, the FDIC, a special servicer of commercial mortgage backed securities trusts, creditors in bankruptcy cases, insurance companies, the San Francisco Unified School District, the California Insurance Commissioner, and most recently, the County of Contra Costa.