Julie Zankel Kimball is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm's Litigation Department, practicing in the areas of constitutional appellate law and intellectual property.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Kimball served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edward Rafeedie, United States District Court for the Central District of California. She received her law degree in 2007 from the University of Southern California, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as a member of the Southern California Law Review. Ms. Kimball's note, "A Little Help with Sharing: A Mandatory Licensing Proposal to Resolve the Unanswered Questions Surrounding Peer-to-Peer Liability for Contributory Copyright Infringement in the Wake of Grokster," was published in the Southern California Law Review, 80 S. Cal. L. Rev. 189 (2006). While in law school, Ms. Kimball served as a judicial extern to Justice Laurie Zelon on the California Court of Appeal. In 2003, she graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Economy.
Ms. Kimball is a member of the California State Bar, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Central and Northern Districts of California.