Kevin Metz is a former litigator in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins where he specialized in complex commercial, securities and class action litigation.  He served on the firm’s Pro Bono, Ethics and Recruiting Committees, and currently serves on the Board of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.  Prior to law school, he worked for several years as a journalist, covering Florida politics for The Tampa Tribune.  He graduated from Northwestern University and Yale Law School, and clerked for the Hon. Michael S. Kanne on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit before joining Latham’s Silicon Valley office in 2000.