Phone:		510.834.6600
Fax:		510.808.4716
E-mail:		PKim@wendel.com

Practice Areas

• Real Estate
• Business
• Restaurants and Wineries

Experience

Patty practices in the area of real estate transactional law emphasizing real estate purchase and sale of vacant land, office buildings, hotels, and residential condominium projects; commercial and office leasing; property management and related fields. Patty has represented companies in the high technology, professional services, manufacturing and retail industries in a broad range of real estate and corporate transactions.

Patricia is currently the President of the Korean-American Bar Association of Northern California (KABA). Through her involvement with KABA, Patricia planned, organized and executed events to promote professional development and to launch community outreach and business outreach projects.

Prior to attending law school, Patricia served as a foreign affairs writer for the Office of the Vice Speaker of the Korean National Assembly in Seoul, Korea. She drafted policy letters to foreign parliaments and heads of state for the Vice Speaker and composed policy opinions on U.S.-Korea relations. In addition, she served as a specialist to the Inter-Parliamentary Affairs Bureau of the Korean National Assembly, where she composed speeches in English for the Vice Speaker and other Parliamentarians; drafted resolutions on international commerce, global development and security issues; and organized and executed two of the largest international political-economic conferences hosted by the National Assembly.

Admissions

• State Bar of California

Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• Korean-American Bar Association of Northern California (KABA-NC)
  
  • Board Member, 2007 - 2008, Past President
• Korean-American Society of Entrepreneurs (KASE)
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• Bay East Association of Realtors
• California Association of Realtors
• International Council of Shopping Centers

Awards/Recognition

• California Real Estate Broker License

Languages

• Fluent in French
• Spoken Korean

Publications

• "Chapter 33: Holding Over and Surrender of Premises," Retail Leasing: Drafting and Negotiating the Lease, California Commercial Leasing Series, Continuing Education of the Bar, co-author, 2007.
• "Reassessment On Change of Ownership," co-author with Tim S. Williams, The Wendel Report, Fall 2006
  

Education

• University of Southern California School of Law, Los Angeles, J.D. (2001)
  
• University of California, Berkeley, B.A., Political Science and French, with honors (1995)