Kayley Marie Berger

Associate Investment Funds

kayley.berger@kirkland.com

Practices

Overview

Kayley Berger is a corporate associate in the Investment Funds Group in the Bay Area office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Kayley’s practice focuses on advising private fund sponsors on legal, regulatory, transactional, and compliance matters.

Thought Leadership

Publications

Author, "In Whose Custody? Miranda, Emergency Medical Care & Criminal Defendants," UC Irvine Law Review, 2021

Author, "Surveying the Golden State (April 1850–June 2020): Vagrancy, Racial Exclusion, Sit-Lie, and the Right to Exist in Public," California Legal History, 2020

Recognition

1st Place Winner in the CSCHS Selma Moidel Smith Writing Competition, 2021

2nd Place Winner in American Kennel Club Animal Law Writing Competition, 2021

3nd Place Winner in Third Annual Criminal Record Essay Competition, 2021

Grand Prize Winner in Beverly Hills Bar Association Rule of Law Writing Competition, 2020

Memberships & Affiliations

American Bar Association

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

2022California

Education

University of California, Irvine School of LawJ.D.magna cum laude2022

Pro Bono Graduation High Honors

Faculty Award for Evidence

Faculty Award for Products Liability Law

Dean’s Award for Civil Procedure

Dean’s Award for First Amendment Law

Dean’s Award for Privacy & Defamation Law

Dean’s Award for Election Law

Associate Editor, UC Irvine Law Review

Staff Editor, UC Irvine Law Review

Executive Publications Editor, UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law

Executive Editor, UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law
University of California, Irvine Paul Merage School of BusinessM.A.2020

Dean’s Scholar

Beta Gamma Sigma

The Executive Committee on Campus (TEC)

Prague Residential
University of California, BerkeleyB.A., Legal Studies
with Distinction, with Honors
2018

Dean's List