Yena Kim

Yena Kim is an associate attorney at Lerner Poole & Stewart, LLP. She has experience in matters involving divorce and legal separation, child custody and visitation, child and spousal support, property division, and domestic violence restraining orders. She also has experience drafting and reviewing prenuptial agreements.

Ms. Kim attended University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). During law school, Ms. Kim was a judicial extern for the Honorable Richard Darwin at San Francisco Unified Family Court and was a summer clerk at the Family Violence Appellate Project. She was a staff editor for the Hastings Law Journal and co-chair of the nationally ranked UC Law SF Moot Court team. As a competitor on the team, she was awarded Best Oral Advocate at the 2019 Frank A. Schreck Gaming Law Moot Court Competition and since graduating, has coached several moot court competition teams at UC Law SF.

Ms. Kim was selected as a Super Lawyers® Northern California Rising Star in 2024 and 2025. Each year, only 2.5% of attorneys in California are named to the Super Lawyers® Rising Stars List.