Kathy Hirata Chin is a Partner at Crowell & Moring LLP, where she moved in October 2018 with the rest of the healthcare practice group after 38 years at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. She is a member of the healthcare and litigation groups at Crowell. She has successfully represented 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 Fair Labor Standards Act disputes.
Ms. Chin graduated from Princeton University magna cum laude and Columbia Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transnational Law. She served as Commissioner on the New York City Planning Commission from 1995 to 2001 and is currently a Commissioner on the New York City Commission to Combat Police Corruption. She has served on the Federal Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel for the Eastern District of New York, Governor Mario Cuomo’s Judicial Screening Committee for the First Department, the Gender Bias Committee of the Second Circuit Task Force, former Chief Judge Judith Kaye’s Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Elections, the Second Circuit Judicial Conference Planning and Program Committee, the Board of Directors of the New York County Lawyers Association, and the Board of Directors of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a non-profit that advocates for marginalized New Yorkers.
She currently serves on the Attorney Emeritus Advisory Council and the Commercial Division Advisory Council, appointed to both by former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman of the New York State Court of Appeals. Since January 2016, she has been a member of the Second Circuit Judicial Council Committee on Civic Education & Public Engagement. In April 2016, she was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to the First Department Judicial Screening Committee.
In October 2017, she received the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health’s Leadership Award in recognition of her distinguished service and commitment to diversity and inclusion. On February 28, 2018, the Asian American Bar Association of New York honored Ms. Chin with its Women’s Leadership Award. On May 28, 2019, Ms. Chin was honored at the Columbia Law School Alumni Association’s Hong Yen Chang Inaugural Reception for her dedication to the Asian Community.
