Jin-Ho King

Email
jk@clearsky.legal

Phone
+1 (617) 395-9571

Office (by appointment only)
28 State St Ste 802
Boston, MA 02109

Languages
English
Chinese (Mandarin)

Jin-Ho King is the managing shareholder of Clear Sky Legal. 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 over a decade of wide-ranging litigation experience, giving him keen insight on the diverse issues his clients face. 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 founding Clear Sky Legal, Mr. King was an appellate litigation partner at the law firm Milligan Rona Duran & King LLC. Mr. King has also worked as an associate at a small litigation firm in Boston, 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).

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  • Areas of Practice

    • Appeals

    • Criminal Law

    • Technology

  • 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, 2010

      • Editor-in-Chief, The George Washington International Law Review

    • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

      • Bachelor of Arts, 2006

      • Major: English

  • Professional Associations and Memberships

    • American Bar Association Cybersecurity Legal Task Force

      • 2021–2024: 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

    • Massachusetts Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers, 2024

    • Massachusetts Rising Stars, Super Lawyers, 2015–2023

    • Star of the Quarter, American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, Spring 2017

  • 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

    • United States v. Santonastaso, 100 F.4th 62 (1st Cir. 2024)

    • United States v. Monson, 72 F.4th 1 (1st Cir. 2023)

    • 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)