Areas of Expertise:

• Employment Litigation and Counseling

Education:

• Santa Clara University School of Law (J.D. 2004)
• University of California, Berkeley (B.A. 2000)

Publications:

• Test Results, LOS ANGELES LAWYER, Feb. 2011, at 32, available at http://www.lacba.org/Files/LAL/Vol33No11/2785.pdf.
• Employers Still Cannot Retaliate: Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville, HAWAII BAR JOURNAL, Oct. 2009, at 4.
• Pacing Discrimination, LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO DAILY JOURNAL, Aug. 1, 2007, Focus, at 5.

John is a Senior Counsel at Scherer Smith & Kenny LLP, where he specializes in employment litigation and counseling. He is licensed to practice law in California and Hawaii courts. Prior to joining Scherer Smith & Kenny LLP, John owned the Lough Law Office where he specialized in employment and business litigation.

John is a native of the Bay Area. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a major in Mathematics and earned his law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law.

John enjoys spending time with his family and friends and is active in the legal community. He completed service as the 48^th/2024 President of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA), one of the oldest and largest local Asian Pacific American (APA) bar associations in the nation; and in January 2025, he was appointed to serve as a Director on the California Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s (Cal-APABA) Board of Directors. In addition, he has been serving on the Bar Association of San Francisco’s (BASF) Solo and Small Firm Section’s Executive Committee since 2017.