“Exceptionally thorough and compelling written advocacy is crucial to providing our clients with the best legal representation possible, and that is my specialty.”
-Attorney Kristen Hunter Randall
I excel at and specialize in researching even the most complex legal issues and crafting compelling legal arguments that zealously advance the interests of our clients.
In doing so, I draw upon, for the benefit of our clients, all the invaluable legal knowledge and experience that I obtained from my extensive time spent working in the judiciary. Specifically, having worked for various judges at the federal appellate and trial court levels as well as at the state trial court levels in both Michigan and Ohio, I gained rare insight into the inner workings of these courts and became well-versed in a wide range of legal matters—from federal to state law and from civil to criminal law. Indeed, over my nine years of working for the judiciary, I wrote hundreds of draft opinions and orders, with each one demonstrating my commitment to producing only high-quality and well-researched work product.
My expertise in providing top-notch legal research and written advocacy services has been highly sought after by even the most senior and experienced attorneys at the firm, and we all work collaboratively to achieve the best possible legal outcomes for our clients. For example, based upon my in-depth legal research, we work together to identify, develop, and put into a well-crafted writing the legal claims, defenses, arguments, and/or strategies that best serve our clients.
As a result of being exceptionally attentive to detail and thorough, I have also been tasked with various document review and production projects on behalf of our clients. Whether I am overseeing a team of other reviewers or conducting such review myself, I strive to ensure that it is done with the highest level of accuracy and that our client’s interests, including with respect to privileged materials, are protected.
Education
- Central Michigan University, B.S., honors program, summa cum laude, English, 1999
- Boston University School of Law, cum laude, 2003
Bar Admissions
- State of Michigan, 2005
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 2005
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2006
Practice Areas
- Advanced Legal Research and Written Advocacy
- Document Review and Production
Honors & Awards
- Edward F. Hennessey Distinguished Scholar (Top 10% of 3rd year class)
- Paul J. Liacos Scholar (Top 25% of 2nd year class)
- Professional Responsibility Dean’s Award recipient (Top student)
- Employee Benefit Plans Dean’s Award recipient (Top student)
Education
- Central Michigan University, B.S., honors program, summa cum laude, English, 1999
- Boston University School of Law, cum laude, 2003
Bar Admissions
- State of Michigan, 2005
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 2005
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2006
Practice Areas
- Advanced Legal Research and Written Advocacy
- Document Review and Production
Honors & Awards
- Edward F. Hennessey Distinguished Scholar (Top 10% of 3rd year class)
- Paul J. Liacos Scholar (Top 25% of 2nd year class)
- Professional Responsibility Dean’s Award recipient (Top student)
- Employee Benefit Plans Dean’s Award recipient (Top student)
Examples of Excellence
- Helped to obtain, on behalf of our clients who were federal crime victims, monetary awards of restitution or compensation from the defendant perpetrators
- Assisted in a personal injury case involving our client’s hand and arm being crushed in a machine-operating incident and that resulted in a $2.75 million settlement for our client
- Helped to obtain the dismissal of our client’s felony malicious-destruction charges for allegedly “tagging” various City of Detroit buildings in a high-profile criminal appeal to the Michigan Court of Appeals
- Handled a massive document review and production project involving over 250,000 documents and managed a team of 6 reviewers in response to federal grand jury subpoenas in a complex criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into certain collective-bargaining corruption in the eastern district of Michigan, with no charges ultimately being brought against our client
- Assisted in a novel criminal defense case under the Michigan Tobacco Products Tax Act that resulted in the Michigan Supreme Court dismissing our client’s 5-year felony charges for transporting 3,000 or more cigarettes without a license
- Helped to obtain the dismissal of our client’s (a medical professional) felony DUI charges as well as the reinstatement of his driving privileges based on the unconstitutionality of the underlying traffic stop
- Assisted in opposing the federal government’s garnishment of our defendant client’s assets in satisfaction of its forfeiture and restitution judgments against her for health care fraud and that resulted in a favorable resolution for our client that preserved significantly more of her assets
- As to a third-party document subpoena issued to our client in a high-profile and complex civil case involving the automotive industry, successfully negotiated a more limited scope of review and production as well as considerable cost-shifting concessions for our client, and otherwise oversaw the document review, including the team of 7 reviewers, and the resultant production
- Obtained, based on my legal research and factual investigation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s dismissal of a charge of gender/pregnancy discrimination by our client’s former employee
- Assisted in challenging, in criminal and civil forfeiture proceedings, the federal government’s seizure of and alleged right to forfeit our third party client’s funds and in obtaining a judicial ruling that such seizure exceeded the government’s authority
Former Legal Positions
Judicial Service & Clerkships
- 53rd District Court, Howell, MI, Attorney Magistrate/Law Clerk, April 2015 – April 2016
- Judge Gary G. Cook, Lucas County Common Pleas Court, Toledo, OH, Staff Attorney, March 2009 – November 2015
- Judge Paul D. Borman, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, Law Clerk, September 2004 – September 2005
- Judge Cornelia G. Kennedy, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, Law Clerk, June 2003 – June 2004
- Judge Gerald E. Rosen, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, Judicial Intern, June 2002 – August 2002
Awards and Accolades
