Karyn Ihara
Vehicle Reacquisition: Update on California AB1755
With the recent passage of California’s AB1755, vehicle manufacturers face new requirements around vehicle reacquisitions. This session provides a clear overview of the legislation and its supplemental bill (26), the latest status updates, and practical insights. Learn what’s changed, what’s coming, and the lessons learned so far—including common pitfalls to avoid.
Bio
Karyn serves as a counsel and has experience in breach of warranty, class action and product liability matters. Her practice has consisted primarily of defending automotive companies in consumer actions in federal and state courts, as well as arbitration. She has won a jury trial, a bench trial and two arbitration hearings. Her experience includes providing strategic advice to clients, defending complex discovery matters, as well as significant motion work. As part of her practice, she has regularly attended court hearings, conducts and defends depositions, attends vehicle inspections, participates in mediations and settlement conferences and negotiates settlements.
Karyn previously served as a law clerk for the Hon. Howard L. Halm and the Hon. Gail Ruderman Feuer of the Los Angeles County Superior Court where she drafted over 2,000 tentative orders for personal injury, premises liability, medical malpractice and product liability actions. She earned her J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where she worked her way through law school as a full time assistant director of Career Services.