Kevin M. Benedicto

Prior to joining the firm, Kevin served as a judicial extern for Judge Paul J. Watford of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Kevin also maintains an active and varied pro bono practice. Kevin has served as a Voting Rights Fellow at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, assisting in election protection and voting rights litigation, including in the leadup and aftermath of the 2020 United States General Election. Kevin has represented and worked with organizations such as the Blue Ribbon Panel on Transparency, Accountability, and Fairness in Law Enforcement and the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice to advise law enforcement agencies across the country on their use of force policies. Kevin is also a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s (BASF) Criminal Justice Task Force. He has also represented a detained transgender individual in asylum and appeal proceedings culminating in a grant of asylum, assisted wildfire victims in seeking aid and assistance, and has represented pro bono clients in immigration and guardianship proceedings.

Kevin received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was President and Chair of the Moot Court Team and served on the Managing Board of the Virginia Journal of International Law. He was also Vice President of UVA Street Law and volunteered with the Virginia Innocence Project.

Kevin graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California San Diego. Before law school, Kevin was an intern for the US Department of Justice – Environment and Natural Resources Division.

• In Hussey v. Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (N.D. Cal. 2017), the district court granted with prejudice a motion to dismiss Section 14 claims finding that plaintiff had abandoned its Section 14(d)(7) claims and failed to state a Section 14(e) claim because scienter is required and was not pled, nor was falsity adequately pled. Media coverage of this decision is linked to this bio.