City & State New York named Crowell & Moring partner Kathy Hirata Chin to its list of 2024 Trailblazers in Law. The inaugural list recognizes “a select group of leaders who are using their legal training to make the world a better place.”
Chin is a member of the firm’s Health Care and Litigation groups. She has successfully represented individual health care providers and associations of such providers in challenges to actions taken by state and federal agencies, including multiple suits regarding Medicaid reimbursement issues, and in a variety of matters in state and federal court involving issues ranging from RICO claims based on allegedly fraudulent billing to FLSA disputes.
Throughout her career, Chin has worked toward the improvement and enhancement of the court system and the legal profession, and the ability of both to better serve the community. She has served on judicial screening committees, a judicial task force to explore gender bias, a commission to promote public confidence in judicial elections, and on the board of directors of bar associations and the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest.
She currently serves on the Attorney Emeritus Advisory Council, the Commercial Division Advisory Council, the Second Circuit Judicial Council Committee on Civic Education & Public Engagement, and as the Acting Chair of the New York City Commission to Combat Police Corruption. She is also Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Medicare Rights Center, a national non-profit organization dedicated to helping older adults and people with disabilities get affordable health care, and Chair of the Board of Advisors of the Center on Asian Americans and the Law at Fordham Law School.
With a team of lawyers and judges from the Asian American Bar Association of New York, she and her husband have developed and presented a series of historic trial reenactments before audiences that have included not only law firms and bar associations, but the EEOC, the New York Historical Society, the New York City Law Department, law schools, colleges, and public schools.
She has received the New York City Bar’s Diversity and Inclusion Champion Award, AABANY’s Women’s Leadership Award, and the inaugural Hong Yen Chang awards from Columbia APALSA and Columbia Law School Association. She was also the recipient of the 2022 Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.
To see the full list of the Trailblazers in Law, please visit here.
