Kharis Lund, Esq.

Kharis Lund is an attorney at Kahana Feld's New York and New Jersey offices. She has significant experience serving as appellate monitoring counsel on major trials, and has experience conceptualizing and drafting appellate briefs and dispositive and other motions on catastrophic property and casualty matters of all kinds. Kharis tailors her work to each client’s specific needs, taking great pride in her meticulous attention to detail and unrelenting research, which she uses to craft compelling arguments. Clients in a variety of industries rely on her to analyze complex issues and draft dispositive motions and appellate briefs that powerfully argue on their behalf, all while skillfully advising them through the complex litigation and appellate process. Given Kharis's ability to critically analyze matters at both the macro and micro level, she distills down the variety of complex issues facing her clients and applies straightforward strategies to meet those clients’ goals. Her clients include a range of individual defendants, multi-national and international insurance carriers, governmental agencies, and large corporations.

Kharis has worked in various positions during and after law school to expand her writing and advocacy skills and refine her practices for her clients’ benefit. She worked as an associate for a prominent New York law firm where she was an integral member of their appellate practice. She assisted with drafting sections of briefs and legal memorandum, utilizing her research skills for a variety of cases, and helping to design litigation strategy.  She also assisted in editing and researching several New York Law Journal articles.

During her time in law school, Kharis served as Senior Notes Editor on the Cardozo Law Review.  She also worked as a legal intern at Cardozo Law School’s Civil Rights Clinic and interned at Manhattan Legal Services in its East Harlem Housing Unit, where she provided free legal services to indigent New Yorkers.

Prior to law school, Kharis worked in recruiting and diversity initiatives at Amazon and as an event planner and coordinator at United Nations Volunteers, where she designed social awareness and fundraising events focused on cancer research.

Kharis is a recipient of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) coveted 2020 Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest First Place Award.  Her winning article was published in the ABA’s Family Law Quarterly. She is also a Committee Member on the New York City Bar Association’s LGBTQ+ Rights Committee.

In her free time, she enjoys rock climbing, playing soccer, reading, and finding the best new restaurants in her neighborhood.