Julianne Lee Duran

Julianne Duran has built a dynamic national litigation practice that spans two core areas: complex commercial litigation and toxic and environmental tort litigation in federal and state courts. Julianne helps a diverse set of clients strategically navigate high-stakes discovery and she effectively briefs diverse and complex legal issues at the trial and appellate level. Representative commercial matters have included breach of contract, false advertising, fraud, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, labor and employment, and antitrust issues. She has litigated class action and single-plaintiff tort claims related to alleged exposure to ethylene oxide, lead paint, asbestos, and other chemicals. She also devotes considerable time to pro bono immigration cases. 

Julianne graduated summa cum laude from Fordham University School of Law, where she was Associate Editor of the Fordham Law Review, President of Fordham's chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), Teaching Assistant for Legislative Regulation, and a Stein Scholar.  She received the Hugh R. Jones Award in Law and Public Policy, the Fordham Law Alumni Association Medal in Constitutional Law, and the Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award.  Julianne earned her B.A., magna cum laude, in English from Georgetown University, with a Certificate in Latin American Studies.  She studied abroad in Santiago, Chile.

Prior to joining King & Spalding, Julianne was an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

Publications

• Co-author, Ch. 19:C Exposure Torts, in A Practitioner's Guide to Class Actions (Marcy Hogan Greer & Amir Nassihi eds.,3d ed. 2021)
• Author, Tortured Language: Lawful Permanent Residents and the 212(H) Waiver, 84 Fordham L. Rev. 1201 (Dec. 2015)