Bethany Kristovich

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Bethany Kristovich is a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson.

Ms. Kristovich has represented JUUL, Philip Morris USA, MGM Resorts International, and Occidental Petroleum.

Ms. Kristovich’s practice is focused on complex civil litigation, with a particular emphasis in high-stakes trials and appeals, including in the professional responsibility, consumer protection, product defect and mass tort contexts. She has represented some of the nation’s largest companies, law firms, and private equity firms in their most sensitive matters. She has also counseled clients through appeals of adverse judgments, including arguments at the California Court of Appeal. Ms. Kristovich is co-chair of the firm’s class action practice group and professional liability defense group.

Ms. Kristovich brings a trial-lawyer’s sense to developing a case strategy with an eye toward achieving the client’s goal. Since joining Munger Tolles, Ms. Kristovich has had a counsel-table role at numerous high-stakes trials and arbitrations, two of which were class action trials in which the plaintiffs requested over a billion dollars in damages. She has also been called upon to defend against numerous applications for preliminary injunction. Ms. Kristovich has earned recognition for her legal victories.

In 2024, she was recognized as a Women of Influence: Attorneys by the Los Angeles Business Journal, and Lawdragon again recognized Ms. Kristovich in its 500 Leading Litigators in America list for complex civil litigation and class actions (2022-2024). She has received several accolades from the Daily Journal including Leading Commercial Litigator (2024); the Top 100 Lawyers in California for her work involving bet-the-company litigation, professional liability defense, and some of the largest mass tort cases of the last five years (2023); and Top Women Lawyers list (2023) for the fourth consecutive year.

In 2020, she was a Women in Law – USA honoree by Lawyer Monthly Legal. Ms. Kristovich was also named one of California’s Top 20 Lawyers Under 40 by the Daily Journal and selected as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers. She was also part of the legal team that helped the firm win Law360’s Class Action Practice Group of the Year award for her work as part of a trial team for Philip Morris USA.

Ms. Kristovich is an active member of the community. She is a board member of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) and the Friends of the LA County Law Library. She was appointed by the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California to serve as a member of the 2019 Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation. Ms. Kristovich is a member of the professional development committee of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation. She serves on the board of the California Women’s Law Center, and she is a previous member of the advisory board of the Western Center on Law and Poverty. As a former debater, she volunteers for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Debate League, an organization that encourages high school students in urban schools to participate in debate.