Ina D. Chang

Since 2020, Ina Chang has worked as a content attorney for CEB, supervising and updating the tort, litigation, and insurance practice guides. Prior to that, she worked for over 12 years on product liability, class action, insurance, and consumer-fraud cases. Ms. Chang has extensive experience in case coordination for both state and federal courts, and has handled all phases of civil discovery, including taking and defending depositions and the development of expert and company witnesses. She was an integral part of numerous defense teams that went to trial and often involved complex litigation.

Ms. Chang graduated with a J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law in 2005, where she received a King Hall Public Service Commitment Certificate. She earned a BA in Political Science and Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. Ms. Chang served as a judicial extern for the California Court of Appeal, 1st District in the summer of 2004, and a judicial extern for the California Court of Appeal, 2nd District writ division in the summer of 2003.

Ms. Chang has been a member of a number of bar associations that are committed to diversity and inclusion in the legal field, including the Asian American Bar Association and Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom. In 2010, she received Shook Hardy & Bacon's Mosaic Award for furthering the firm’s diversity efforts. Prior to becoming a lawyer, she was a reporter for the Daily Californian (University of California, Berkeley) and a reporting intern for a number of newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, the Californian (Salinas, CA), and the Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY).