KATHRIN SEARS
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE – CONSUMER LAW SECTION
Deputy Attorney General & Supervising Deputy Attorney General
San Francisco, California
October 2005-Present
GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER
Associate & Partner
San Francisco, Palo Alto & Washington, D.C.
October 1989-June 1995 and March 1997-August 2005
HELLER, EHRMAN, WHITE & MCAULIFFE, San Francisco, California
Associate, August 1995-February 1997
Legal Researcher for China Practice, 1983-1984
THE ASIA SOCIETY, New York, New York
Program Associate for the China Council, 1984-1985
EDUCATION
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts
J.D., 1989
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ph.D., Political Science, 1985
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, Washington
M.A., China Regional Studies, 1977
CARLETON COLLEGE, Northfield, Minnesota
B.A., Asian Studies, 1973
PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Speaking Experience:
- CDAA Real Estate Fraud Seminar, 2009
- CDAA Consumer Protection Prosecution Conference, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Extensive trainings on legal issues to law firm clients, 1994-2005
- National Employment Law Institute, San Francisco, May 2003
- CEB, Fundamentals of Wrongful Employment Termination Practice, September 2002 and 2000
- California Center for Judicial Education and Research, January 2001
- City of Torrance, California, September 1995
- N.E.H. Conference on 20th Century China, Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 1986
- China Institute, New York City, March 1986
- Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Boston, February 1986
- American Council of Learned Societies, New York City, February 1984