Bio Sketch

Kenzo Kawanabe’s practice focuses on appellate, complex commercial litigation, and arbitration matters.  He represents clients in a variety of matters relating to contract disputes, business torts, products liability, franchise litigation, condemnations, and intellectual property concerns.  Clients include natural resources corporations, as well as various manufacturers including companies that make pharmaceutical products, automobiles, satellites, semiconductor chips, metal injection molding, and aircraft paint.  Mr. Kawanabe coordinated a defense team that performed discovery and expert work with regard to hundreds of plaintiffs who lived in Colorado, Alaska, Montana, and other jurisdictions, as part of nationwide mass tort litigation against a pharmaceutical company.  Mr. Kawanabe chaired the firm’s Electronically Stored Information (“ESI”) Committee and Diversity Committee, and served as the first-ever General Counsel to the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.

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