Kianna engages in an expansive array of litigation matters, including professional liability, complex commercial disputes, government investigations, and financial services litigation and FINRA arbitrations. She also has experience with employment litigation and conducting sensitive employment investigations, as well as matters involving health law and trademark protection. Kianna is active in the Mintz Pro Bono practice. Specifically, she has worked with sex trafficking survivors and survivor-led coalitions. Further, she has assisted in drafting House Bill No. 1761, An Act to Strengthen Justice and Support for Sex Trade Survivors.

Prior to joining Mintz, Kianna was an associate in the Boston office of a national law firm. In that role, she advised clients in litigation, regularly drafting and arguing dispositive motions, assisting with all stages of discovery, and taking and defending depositions. She also analyzed clients’ liability risks, with a particular focus on matters involving environmental, products, design and other professional liability claims, and other tort-related exposures.

While attending law school, Kianna interned in the White Collar & Public Integrity Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office and in Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Law Department. She also served as a law clerk in the Professional Liability Practice at a Boston-based litigation firm. In law school, she served as vice president and chapter historian of BC Law’s Black Law Students Association.