Maytak Chin is a strategic litigator with broad experience in dispute resolution and a trusted advisor to many corporate and public pension fund clients. She has worked on several trial teams, representing clients in business litigation in areas ranging from breach of fiduciary duty, trade secrets misappropriation, shareholder and contract disputes, and professional negligence.
She serves as fiduciary and litigation counsel to several California public pension funds. She has represented boards of retirements in CCP § 1094.5 proceedings regarding benefit eligibility determinations and in CCP § 1085 writ proceedings involving constitutional fiduciary duty and statutory issues, including felony forfeitures among others.
In addition to her public pension practice, Maytak has a proven track-record of winning cases and achieving client objectives in mediation, arbitration, administrative proceedings, at trial and on appeal. Maytak served as a core trial team member prosecuting a trade secrets misappropriation in a five week jury trial in Lumileds v. Elec-Tech International Co., Ltd., Santa Clara County Case No. 1-15-CV-278566, which resulted in a $66 million jury verdict and worldwide injunction in favor of her client.
An outstanding firm citizen, Maytak served a two-year term as the firm’s co-chair of its Asian American Business Inclusion Group and has been on the firm’s the Summer Associate Hiring Committee for over five years. She also maintains a strong pro bono practice representing immigrant youth through Special Immigrant Juvenile Status proceedings and has received an award from Legal Services for Children for her outstanding pro bono work.
