Kayla Yoon

Kayla Yoon is an associate in Dechert’s litigation group. She represents clients in complex commercial and civil disputes, government investigations and bankruptcy proceedings.

Ms. Yoon also devotes time to pro bono matters, focusing on criminal trials and civil administrative appeals. Her representative experience includes two misdemeanor trials before the Circuit Court of Cook County and a successful appeal of a student’s expulsion decision.

While at New York University School of Law, Ms. Yoon argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as part of NYU Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic. She also interned for Judge Paul L. Friedman in the District Court for the District of Columbia. Throughout law school, she served as a research assistant for Professor Alina Das and as a staff and online annotations editor for the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics.