WookSun Hong
Top rated Civil Rights attorney in Oakland, California
Law Office of WookSun Hong/Bay Area Legal Incubator
Practice areas: Civil Rights, Real Estate, Business & Corporate; view more
Licensed in California since: 2015
Education: University of San Francisco School of Law
Languages Spoken: English, Korean
Selected to Rising Stars: 2021 - 2025 
Free Consultation Law Office of WookSun Hong/Bay Area Legal Incubator
125 12th StSuite 100-BALI
Oakland, CA 94607 Phone: 510-255-3977 Email: WookSun Hong Visit website
Details
WookSun Hong is part of the Bay Area Legal Incubator, a group of attorneys that provide legal services for mid to low-income communities. Their practice areas cover landlord-tenant, employment, immigration, estate planning, real estate, business/corporate law, prisoners’ rights, elder law, education, and more. He graduated from Seoul National University with a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry. He pursued a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry before switching to law. He is the recipient of the ACBA’s 2019 Distinguished Service Award for Barrister. He is a recepient of 2019, 2020, and 2022 extraordinary VLSC volunteer, and 2023 Volunteer Appreciation Award, and was a member of ACBA LRS Governing Committee from 2019 until 2024, vice chair in 2023, and chair in 2024. He enjoys cycling and wants to travel to as many countries as possible in the future.
He personally handles housing/landlord-tenant cases, residential or commercial; housing discrimination including section 8/income discrimination, gender identity/sexual orientation discrimination, race/national origin discrimination, service/support animal issues. However, he handles many other aspects of related real estate issues, such as title disputes, boundary disputes, transaction disputes, etc. His areas of practice include Business law (Business contacts and entity formation) and estate planning (Trust, Will, Power of attorney).
Practice areas
Civil Rights, Real Estate: Consumer, Business/Corporate, Estate Planning & Probate, Real Estate: BusinessFirst Admitted: 2015, California
Professional Webpage: https://www.bayarealegalincubator.org/p/3072/wooksun-phil-ho...
- Chair, Alameda County Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service Governing Committe, 2024
- Alameda County Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service Governing Committee, vice chair, 2023
- Alameda County Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service Governing Committee
- CA Supreme Court - Judgment Upheld, 2025
- Appeal: Affirmed in full, 2024
- Settlement: Housing Discrimination., 2024
- verdict, jury trial, 2024
- Defense: Dismissal with prejudice - Breach of Contract, 2023
- Writ of Mandamus - Granted, 2024
- Settlement - Business contract, 2024
- Judgment - Wrongful eviction, housing discrimination, 2024
- settlement - housing discrimination/retaliation, 2023
- settlement - Section 8 housing discrimination, 2023
- Verdict - gender identity discrimination/misgendering including punitive damages, 2023
- Settlement - harassment, 2022
- Settlement - Wrongful Eviction, 2023
- Commercial Building purchase/contract negotiation, 2023
- real estate purchase dispute, 2022
- Settlement - breach of contract for business purchase, 2022
- Settlement - Housing Discrimination, 2022
- Ellis Act eviction settlement, 2022
- Constructive eviction, 2021
- Housing discrimination based on disability, familial status, source of income., 2021
- Retaliatory Eviction, 2017
- Wrongful Eviction, 2020
- wrongful eviction, 2016
- Housing discrimination based on source of income (section 8), 2021
- Housing discrimination based on race, income source or disability, 2021
- Housing defects/habitability violations, 2021
- Quite title, 2020
- Housing discrimination based on gender identity, 2020
- Housing discrimination based on race and disability for a couple - settlement for $200,000, 2020
- residential tenants and small business commercial tenants
- racial minority clients for housing discrimination
- small business owners in need of contract or contract dispute
- Transgender or nonbinary clients for housing discrimination
- Commercial Lease negotiation, 2022
- Commercial Building Purchase Negotiation, 2023
- Commercial Lease Negotiation, 2023
- partnership agreement, 2022
- purchase contract for small business owners lease preparation and/or negotiation for business owners Lease renegotiation for small business owners, 2020
- Lease/Purchase negotiation/agreement, 2021
- conversion of small business from self-employment to corporation, 2021
- Commercial Lease assignment, 2021
- Buyout agreement, corporation, 2021
- 2016-current. Community Legal Assistance Saturday Clinic by Alameda County Bar Association, first Saturday of every month -
- Commercial Eviction Defense, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, San Francisco, CA , 2020
- 2020-current. Property Transfer Clinic, Alameda county
- Certificate of Appreciation, AIDS Legal Referral Panel, 2016
- Extraordinary Volunteer, Alameda County Bar Association, Legal Access Alameda, 2022
- For outstanding service providing pro bono services to those in need as a volunteer for Legal Service Alameda, Certificate of Appreciation, Legal Access Alameda, 2022
- Presenting an MCLE Training in 2022, Volunteer Appreciation Award, ALRP, 2023
- Accepting five or more referrals in 2022, Volunteer Appreciation Award, ALRP, 2023
- 2015 Pro Bono Publico Award, Gold Level, University of San Francisco, School of Law, 2015
- Outstanding Volunteer, Volunteer Legal Services Corp. of Alameda County Bar Association, 2019
- ACBA Distinguished Service Award for a Barrister, Alameda County Bar Assoc, 2019
- Outstanding Volunteer, Volunteer Legal Services Corp. of Alameda County Bar Association, 2018
- Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 1989
Office location for WookSun Hong
125 12th St
Suite 100-BALI
Oakland, CA 94607
Selections
- Rising Stars: 2021 - 2025