Kalina Zhong

• Advising a for-profit education company regarding K-12 education laws, rules, and guidance.
• Representing a real estate developer in lawsuits against the government and its contractor, seeking damages resulting from the botched cleanup of a former naval shipyard at the center of San Francisco’s largest redevelopment project in a century.
• Representing a multinational energy company regarding California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance for the transformation of a refinery to the largest renewable fuels facility in the world, including consideration of land use, environmental permitting, and related litigation for the project.
• Representing an industrial company and landowner in connection with sediment contamination at the Portland Harbor Superfund Site in Oregon.

Kalina Zhong is an associate in Alston & Bird’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group. Before joining the firm, Kalina served as a health, education, and welfare intern at the California Department of Justice – Office of the Attorney General where she researched and wrote on topics such as qualified immunity, civil jury trials, expert disclosure requirements, and licensing requirements. She also served as an intern with the Administrative Law Judge Division of the California Public Utilities Commission.

Kalina received her J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a staff member for the Pacific Basin Law Journal. In law school, Kalina also participated in the Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic. She received her B.A. from Rice University in political science.

Languages

• Mandarin Chinese

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• University of California, Los Angeles (J.D., 2022)
• Rice University (B.A., 2019)