Kimura London & White LLP

Focus and practice areas

Kimura London & White LLP is a litigation and trial firm based in Irvine, California. The work divides into three areas: business litigation and corporate law, real estate law, and private client services. Each area carries its own list of matter types on the firm's site.

The business litigation side handles partnership and shareholder disputes, breach of contract claims, business fraud, defamation, class actions, and construction defect cases. The real estate practice covers commercial lease conflicts, title disputes, construction defects, and disagreements between property partners. There's overlap between the two, and that makes sense: a construction defect claim and a partnership fight over a building often arrive as the same file.

Private client services reach further. The firm handles trusts and estate planning, high-asset divorce, personal injury and premises liability, dog bite claims, wrongful death, trust and estate disputes, white collar defense, and cryptocurrency disputes.

What that combination suggests

In my opinion, the shape of this list points at a particular kind of client. Someone who owns a business, owns property, and has an estate to plan will meet all three practice groups over a lifetime. A shareholder dispute today, a trust question in ten years.

Cryptocurrency disputes sitting alongside trust and estate litigation is worth noting. Digital asset claims raise questions courts are still working through: custody, valuation on a moving market, whether a wallet key counts as property in a division. Firms that list it are usually signalling they've had the conversation with clients already.

How the team is built

Three founding partners give the firm its name. Joshua M. Kimura is a founding partner and a trial attorney. William "Bill" London is a founding partner. Darrell P. White is a founding partner and a trial attorney. Two of the three names on the door are described as trial lawyers, which fits a firm that calls itself a litigation and trial practice.

Douglas C. Stastny is a partner. The of counsel group holds Frederick W. London, Alexander L. Massari, Michael S. Vasin, Wuyu "Brandon" Lang, and Maggie A. Miller. Vasin represents corporate and individual clients.

Christopher T. Gross carries the title Director of Family Law. That's a distinct role, and it lines up with the high-asset divorce work listed under private client services. Family law inside a business litigation firm usually exists because the divorces involve companies, and valuing a closely held business in a dissolution is its own discipline.

Associates and depth

Olivia L. Benvenuto and Chase J. Cameron are associates. Twelve named attorneys across founding partners, a partner, of counsel, associates, and a family law director is enough bench for the practice areas listed. The of counsel tier tends to bring senior lawyers into specific matters, which lets a firm take work it couldn't staff full time.

Chinese and Japanese language assistance is available. For business litigation in Southern California, where cross-Pacific investment and joint ventures are ordinary, that has practical value in a deposition or a document review.

Where the firm appears in court

The attorneys practice in Orange County Superior Court, Los Angeles Superior Court, and state and federal courts in California, including the Central District of California. Those three venues cover most of the litigation a Southern California business or property owner is likely to face.

The Central District is the federal trial court covering Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties. Class actions, federal fraud claims, and disputes crossing state lines often land there. Local rules and scheduling practice differ enough from state court that regular appearance matters.

Orange County and Los Angeles Superior Courts run complex civil departments where business disputes with multiple parties get assigned to a single judge for the life of the case. A firm listing both counties can follow a client whose business sits in one and whose property sits in the other.

Offices and recognition

The main office is in Irvine. The firm also keeps offices in Beverly Hills and in Manhattan, New York. The Irvine and Beverly Hills pairing tracks the Orange County and Los Angeles court coverage. A New York presence is less common for a California litigation firm this size and suggests clients or counterparties on the East Coast.

The firm has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list and featured in Forbes and Fortune. The Inc. 5000 measures revenue growth rather than legal results, so as a reviewer I'd read it as a signal about the business rather than about case outcomes. It's still a verifiable third-party listing, which is more than most firm websites offer.

What a prospective client should expect to check

The site names its attorneys with titles and gives full practice area detail. Attorney biographies on the roster are short, and the pages don't state law schools or bar admission years. Anyone comparing firms can confirm admission dates and disciplinary history through the State Bar of California's public licensee search, which is free and takes a minute per name.

No founding year appears on the site either. For a firm on the Inc. 5000, the growth ranking itself implies a track record long enough to measure revenue over multiple years.

How these matters generally proceed

Some context on the practice areas the firm names, offered as general background rather than as a description of this firm's approach. Shareholder and partnership disputes usually begin with a demand to inspect books and records, then move to a complaint that may combine breach of fiduciary duty with breach of the operating or partnership agreement. Many end in a buyout valuation fight decided on competing expert reports.

Construction defect claims in California run through a statutory pre-litigation process for residential work, with notice, inspection, and an opportunity to repair before a suit proceeds. Deadlines are strict and turn on when the defect was or should have been discovered.

Trust and estate disputes go before the probate department, where a judge hears the matter without a jury. Petitions to remove a trustee, contest a trust amendment, or compel an accounting each follow their own procedural track, and the documents that decide them are usually bank records and the drafting attorney's file.

White collar defense often starts long before charges, at the point a client receives a grand jury subpoena or a target letter. Decisions made in that window, about document preservation and whether to speak with investigators, tend to shape everything after.

Kimura London & White LLP publishes its attorney roster, its three practice groups with the specific claim types under each, its court appearances by venue, and its three office locations. Facebook is the only social account listed on the site.