Clients turn to Clara Shin to litigate and to take their most challenging and business-sensitive matters to trial.
Clara represents some of the world’s leading companies across a broad range of matters, including complex commercial, trade secret misappropriation, and intellectual property disputes. She litigates in trial and appellate courts across the country and in arbitration proceedings. Clara’s most recent wins include defeating trade secret, fraud, and breach of contract claims valued at $1.8 billion in an international arbitration; winning a defense verdict in a trade secrets trial with $500 million at stake and successfully arguing the ensuing appeal; and arguing and obtaining summary judgment in a trademark suit where the damages exposure exceeded $100 million. Clara has been recognized as a National Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation, a litigation “Game Changer” by The Recorder, and twice for delivering the year’s top verdicts by the Daily Journal.
She frequently partners directly with clients and senior executives to align their legal, policy, and business strategies. In these roles, she advises company leadership on key business priorities in a wide variety of areas, including intellectual property, policy, product and commercial, privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance. Clara has also conducted numerous internal investigations for public companies, schools, and boards of directors on issues ranging from accounting matters to workplace culture.
Clara was a founding co-chair of Covington’s global commercial litigation practice group. Earlier in her career, Clara served as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant in the White House Office of the Chief of Staff. She also helped to design and launch the AmeriCorps national service program under President Clinton.
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