Contact Information
Locations: Boston, Massachusetts; New York, New York
Phone: 617-395-9571
Fax: 855-395-5525
E-mail: jhk@mrdklaw.com
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JIN-HO KING （金正和）
Jin-Ho King is a founding partner in Milligan Rona’s Boston and New York offices. He concentrates his practice in criminal and civil appeals and litigation. He represents individuals and organizations seeking thoughtful guidance through complex disputes, investigations, and prosecutions.
Mr. King has wide-ranging litigation experience, giving him keen insight on the diverse issues his clients face. Just in the past few years, Mr. King has won a federal copyright infringement jury trial, successfully reversed the criminal conviction of a factually innocent defendant, and recovered millions for a business client in a licensing dispute. Individuals and organizations seek Mr. King’s counsel because he communicates thoughtfully and effectively with generalist judges and lay jurors alike no matter the subject area—whether in criminal law, intellectual-property rights, or high technology.
Prior to forming Milligan Rona, Mr. King was an associate at a small Boston-based litigation firm for several years. Mr. King has also worked as a summer associate at a large law firm in Boston, as a public defender intern with the Committee for Public Counsel Services, and as an English editor and translator for an international law firm in China and Taiwan.
Mr. King received his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and his Juris Doctor with Honors from the George Washington University Law School. In law school, he served as the editor-in-chief of the George Washington International Law Review.
Mr. King speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese (中文).
Areas of Practice
Appeals
Criminal Law
Civil Litigation
Bar Admissions
Massachusetts
New York
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
Education
The George Washington University Law School, Washington, District of Columbia
Juris Doctor with Honors
Editor-in-Chief, The George Washington International Law Review
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Bachelor of Arts
Major: English
Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association Cybersecurity Legal Task Force
2021–Present: Member and Liaison to the Judicial Division
American Bar Association Judicial Division
2016–Present: Member, Court Technology Committee
American Bar Association Section of Litigation
2018–2021: Chair of the Young Lawyers Subcommittee, Criminal Litigation Committee
American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division
2015–2019: New York Delegate, YLD Assembly
2016–2018: Liaison, Death Penalty Representation Project Special Committee
2016–2018: Co-Chair, Criminal Justice Committee
2015–2017: Senior Content Editor
Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Languages
English
Mandarin Chinese
Awards and Recognition
Star of the Quarter, American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, Spring 2017
Massachusetts Rising Stars, Super Lawyers, 2015–2020
Publications
From Indictment to Forfeiture: What’s Yours Is (Now) Mine, Crim. Litig. Comm. Newsl. (A.B.A. Sec. Litig., Chicago, Ill.), Fall 2019.
From Case Law to the Courtroom: Tips for Drafting Your First Winning Motions, Crim. Litig. Comm. Newsl. (A.B.A. Sec. Litig., Chicago, Ill.), Fall 2018.
The Why and How of Motions in Limine, 101 Practice Series: Breaking Down the Basics (A.B.A. Young Law. Div., Chicago, Ill.) (2017).
A Discussion on Prosecuting Law Enforcement, Crim. Just. Comm. Newsl. (A.B.A. Young Law. Div., Chicago, Ill.), Winter 2017, at 3.
Rethinking Flight in a Post "Stop-and-Frisk" America, Crim. Just. Comm. Newsl. (A.B.A. Young Law. Div., Chicago, Ill.), Fall 2016, at 5.
Speaking Engagements
Panelist, Generative Artificial Intelligence in Court: What Might Concern Judges (A.B.A. Judicial Div.) (July 13, 2023).
Panelist, The Emoji’s Gambit: Legal Issues in Admitting Emojis as Symbols of Evidence (A.B.A. Judicial Div.) (Aug. 18, 2021).
Panelist, Explicit and Implicit Bias, 2019 Summit in Washington, D.C. (Appellate Judges Educ. Inst.) (Nov. 17, 2019).
Panelist, Judicial Decision Making and Contemporaneous Research: Ethics or Access?, 2019 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. (A.B.A. Judicial Div., Chicago, Ill.) (Aug. 10, 2019).
Moderator, Put a Plug in the Jug: Ethical and Criminal Consequences of Alcohol Abuse in the Legal Profession, 2017 Fall Conference in Denver, Colo. (A.B.A. Young. Law. Div., Chicago, Ill.) (Oct. 5, 2017).
Panelist, ABA YLD Litigation Committee’s Litigation Week Appeals Teleconference (July 27, 2017).
Recent Published Opinions
Hamilton Int’l Ltd. v. Vortic LLC, 13 F.4th 264 (2d Cir. 2021)
Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 (2021)
Commonwealth v. Bohigian, 486 Mass. 209 (2020)
Commonwealth v. Rivera, 482 Mass. 145 (2019)
IvyMedia Corp. v. iLIKEBUS, Inc., 252 F. Supp. 3d 34 (D. Mass. 2017)
Commonwealth v. Firmin, 89 Mass. App. Ct. 62, 46 N.E.3d 558 (2016)
Bradley v. Sugarbaker, 809 F.3d 8 (1st Cir. 2015)
Commonwealth v. Cullity, 470 Mass. 1022, 25 N.E.3d 313 (2015)
Commonwealth v. Shea, 467 Mass. 788, 7 N.E.3d 1028 (2014)