Kimberly Sudakow is a staff attorney in O’Melveny’s Washington, DC office and a member of the Litigation Department and Electronic Discovery and Retention Practice. While at O’Melveny, Kimberly has contributed her expertise on a variety of matters in the firm’s Health Care, Intellectual Property & Technology and Financial Services Groups.
Prior to her work with O’Melveny, Kimberly served as an Assistant District Attorney in Oneida County, where she devoted her time to the Special Victim’s Unit (SVU) prosecuting violent felony domestic homicides and assaults, violations of Court Orders, predatory sexual assaults (minors) and some financial and general crimes. Kimberly worked closely with all law enforcement agencies to secure and execute search warrants and retain crucial physical and digital evidence under the confines of the heavily revised CPL §245.
Before Kimberly served as an Assistant District Attorney in New York, she spent approximately 8 years practicing in Maryland and DC courts, representing clients in breach of contract, real estate, property damage and family law matters. During this same time, Kimberly also operated as general counsel assisting her client in officially incorporating their domestic organization in the UAE (FZE) while navigating their overseas contract negotiations and employee related affairs.
Kimberly started her legal career as a contract attorney for the Department of Justice-Torts Division, wherein she assisted in the Hurricane Katrina Litigation, Robinson vs. United States (In re Katrina Canal Breaches Litig.). She then transitioned into the Antitrust Division, assisting in United States v. Microsoft Corp. She gained valuable experience maintaining and accessing ediscovery within Relativity databases when assisting in depo prep, trial prep and hands on trial demonstrations. Kimberly continued to utilize her ediscovery skillset during various points of her legal career working as a Contract Attorney assisting in the defense of governmental antitrust investigations and large scale litigation, most notably United States vs. Countrywide Financial and United States vs. Bank of America, N.A.
Admissions
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- New York
Court Admissions
- US District Court, District of Maryland
Education
- University of St. Thomas, J.D.
- University at Buffalo, B.A., Legal Studies