Kirsten M. Fish
Kirsten M. Fish joined Needham, Kepner, Fish & Jones in 2002 and became a partner in 2007. She currently focuses her practice on personal injury and wrongful death litigation, elder abuse litigation, and complex business litigation, including misappropriation of trade secret cases. Before joining our firm, Kirsten prepared and prosecuted patent applications while working as a patent associate.
Kirsten is the author of "Litigating Financial Abuse Actions Against Institutions, Agents and Fiduciaries" in CEB's California Elder Law Litigation: An Advocate's Guide. She is also a frequent guest lecturer, and has presented the "Nuts and Bolts of Elder Abuse Litigation" seminar to the Monterey County Bar Association and the Sunnyvale-Cupertino Bar Association. Kirsten has also lectured to law students enrolled in Trial Techniques at Santa Clara University School of Law. She has taught Legal Research & Writing at Lincoln Law School in San Jose since 2009.
Admissions
- California, 2001
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
Education
- J.D., summa cum laude, Santa Clara University School of Law
- B.S., Chemistry, with honors, University of California, Davis
