WookSun Hong Attorney

First Admitted: 2015, California

Bar/Professional Activity:

Chair, Alameda County Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service Governing Committe, 2024
Alameda County Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service Governing Committee, vice chair, 2023
Alameda County Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service Governing Committee

Verdicts/Settlements (Case Results):

CA Supreme Court - Judgment Upheld, 2025
Appeal: Affirmed in full, 2024
Settlement: Housing Discrimination., 2024
verdict, jury trial, 2024
Defense: Dismissal with prejudice - Breach of Contract, 2023
Writ of Mandamus - Granted, 2024
Settlement - Business contract, 2024
Judgment - Wrongful eviction, housing discrimination, 2024
settlement - housing discrimination/retaliation, 2023
settlement - Section 8 housing discrimination, 2023
Verdict - gender identity discrimination/misgendering including punitive damages, 2023
Settlement - harassment, 2022
Settlement - Wrongful Eviction, 2023
Commercial Building purchase/contract negotiation, 2023
real estate purchase dispute, 2022
Settlement - breach of contract for business purchase, 2022
Settlement - Housing Discrimination, 2022
Ellis Act eviction settlement, 2022
Constructive eviction, 2021
Housing discrimination based on disability, familial status, source of income., 2021
Retaliatory Eviction, 2017
Wrongful Eviction, 2020
wrongful eviction, 2016
Housing discrimination based on source of income (section 8), 2021
Housing discrimination based on race, income source or disability, 2021
Housing defects/habitability violations, 2021
Quite title, 2020
Housing discrimination based on gender identity, 2020
Housing discrimination based on race and disability for a couple - settlement for $200,000, 2020

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Representative Clients:

Transactions:

Commercial Lease negotiation, 2022
Commercial Building Purchase Negotiation, 2023
Commercial Lease Negotiation, 2023
partnership agreement, 2022
purchase contract for small business owners lease preparation and/or negotiation for business owners Lease renegotiation for small business owners, 2020
Lease/Purchase negotiatiogreement, 2021
conversion of small business from self-employment to corporation, 2021
Commercial Lease assignment, 2021
Buyout agreement, corporation, 2021

Pro bono/Community Service:

2016-current. Community Legal Assistance Saturday Clinic by Alameda County Bar Association, first Saturday of every month -
Commercial Eviction Defense, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, San Francisco, CA , 2020
2020-current. Property Transfer Clinic, Alameda county

Honors/Awards:

Certificate of Appreciation, AIDS Legal Referral Panel, 2016
Extraordinary Volunteer, Alameda County Bar Association, Legal Access Alameda, 2022
For outstanding service providing pro bono services to those in need as a volunteer for Legal Service Alameda, Certificate of Appreciation, Legal Access Alameda, 2022
Presenting an MCLE Training in 2022, Volunteer Appreciation Award, ALRP, 2023
Accepting five or more referrals in 2022, Volunteer Appreciation Award, ALRP, 2023
2015 Pro Bono Publico Award, Gold Level, University of San Francisco, School of Law, 2015
Outstanding Volunteer, Volunteer Legal Services Corp. of Alameda County Bar Association, 2019
ACBA Distinguished Service Award for a Barrister, Alameda County Bar Assoc, 2019
Outstanding Volunteer, Volunteer Legal Services Corp. of Alameda County Bar Association, 2018

Educational Background:

Firm News (Newsletters):

Survivors of forced or involuntary sterilization while under custody of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation system who underwent ablation of the uterus were denied compensation even though, we believe, they should have been compensated under H&S code section 24210. My office is assisting them to seek justice., Survivors from California’s Period of Forced Sterilization Denied Reparations, Minority Women

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