Kathy Hirata Chin concentrates her practice in health care and real estate litigation. Kathy and her fellow members of the health care practice group have successfully represented individual health care providers and associations of such providers in challenges to actions taken by state agencies, including a successful challenge to the "recalibration" regulation applicable to Medicaid rate years 1992 and onward. In an appellate court ruling in the Medicaid reimbursement area, she was successful in reversing a lower court decision against a children's nursing facility on the basis of the unique characteristics of that institution. Kathy also defended a provider against RICO claims in federal court based on allegedly fraudulent billing activity, and represented providers and associations of providers as plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of matters involving contract disputes, cash receipts assessments, leasehold valuation, the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and Fair Labor Standards Act coverage. As counsel to a religious institution, she has successfully defended claims of religious discrimination.

Kathy also has wide experience in various forms of real estate litigation, including disputes over transferable development rights, leasehold valuation, allocation of PILOT monies, and local law compliance issues. She has extensive experience with real estate foreclosures, having herself conducted or supervised foreclosures of numerous multimillion-dollar mortgages on various types of property, including office buildings, condominium complexes, and mixed-use buildings.

Kathy has been at Cadwalader since her graduation from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. She graduated, magna cum laude, from Princeton University. Kathy is admitted to practice in the State of New York; the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of New York; and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

From August 1995 until December 2001, Kathy served as a member of the New York City Planning Commission, nominated by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. Currently, she is a member of the New York City Commission to Combat Police Corruption, a position she has held since appointment by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in August 2003.

Kathy was a member of Governor Mario M. Cuomo’s Judicial Screening Committee for the First Judicial Department and of the Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel for the Eastern District of New York. She was a member of the Gender Bias Committee of the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness, and continues to serve on the New York County Lawyers Association’s Task Force to Increase Diversity in the Legal Profession. She is currently a member of Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye’s Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Elections. Kathy has served as a member of the New York County Lawyers Association‘s Board of Directors and of the Second Circuit Judicial Conference Planning and Program Committee, and is a member of the Asian American Bar Association of New York, the New York State Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council, and the New York County Lawyers Association.