Diana Kim of Morrison & Foerster. Courtesy photoMoFo Associate Sees a Familiar Face During Her First Appellate Argument: Justice Breyer
Morrison & Foerster associate Diana Kim clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer for two terms at the U.S. Supreme Court before joining the firm about two years ago. She learned about a week before she argued her first appeal at the First Circuit this month that the retired justice would be sitting on the panel hearing the case.
January 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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When Morrison & Foerster associate Diana Kim got the opportunity to make her first appellate argument earlier this month, she leaped at it.
The case was a meaty one. She would be arguing to uphold a $15.5 million verdict that a pro bono trial team at the firm helped win alongside co-counsel at the Center for Justice and Accountability and Dentons U.S. last year for three Haitian nationals under the federal Torture Victims Protection Act. Jurors found that the clients—David Boniface, Juders Ysemé, and Nissandère Martyr—had suffered politically motivated torture under former Haitian politician Jean Morose Viliena, who fled to the U.S. to avoid responsibility for his crimes.
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