Kiley McCarthy

Fashion, luxury retail, brand, licensing, and legal professional with deep Los Angeles roots and a longstanding connection to the Pacific Palisades.

Experience spans high-touch client service, visual merchandising, independent boutique retail, designer fashion, brand-side operations, intellectual property, licensing, and commercial legal work.

Juris

Doctor from Fordham Law with fashion-law coursework through the Fashion Law Institute, bringing an unusual combination of fashion fluency, local market knowledge, creative judgment, client-facing experience, and legal/business training.

Law Clerk - Valle Makoff LLP - Los Angeles, CA

(2023-09 - 2025-03)

• Supported complex commercial litigation and business disputes through legal research, factual analysis, drafting, document review, discovery, and case management.
• Managed sophisticated, detail-intensive work across multiple matters, strengthening judgment, organization, written communication, and problem-solving skills.

Sales Associate / Store Operations - Permanent Vacation - Los Angeles, CA

(2021-06 - 2023-06)

• Delivered personalized, high-touch service to luxury clients in an independent Los Angeles boutique environment.
• Supported styling, in-store merchandising, inventory management, store events, and day-to-day boutique operations.
• Worked closely with clients in a relationship-driven retail setting requiring strong product knowledge, taste, discretion, and adaptability.

Licensing & Project Manager - JAKKS Pacific - Santa Monica, CA

(2019-01 - 2020-12)

• Managed licensing projects across multiple product categories, coordinating approvals, deliverables, deadlines, and documentation with licensors, external counsel, and internal teams.
• Conducted market and competitor research and supported cross-functional decisions involving brand, product, licensing, and commercial priorities.

Law Clerk - Spertus, Landes & Umhoffer, LLP - Los Angeles, CA

(2017-01 - 2019-12)

• Supported corporate and commercial litigation through legal research, writing, document review, discovery, and case preparation.

Legal Intern – General Counsel's Office - James Perse Enterprises - Los Angeles, CA

(2015-06 - 2015-08)

• Worked inside a Los Angeles fashion brand on contracts, vendor agreements, trademark, licensing, intellectual property, and brand-protection matters.
• Supported coordination among legal, operations, and product-development teams, gaining direct exposure to the business infrastructure behind a fashion brand.

Summer Associate – Litigation - Liner LLP - Los Angeles, CA

(2016-06 - 2016-08)

Fashion & Luxury Retail Experience - Elyse Walker · Kimberly Ovitz · Band of Outsiders - Los Angeles, CA

Earlier professional experience within Los Angeles luxury retail and designer fashion environments, with exposure to high-end clients, designer product, styling, brand presentation, and the local fashion market.

Juris Doctor - Law - Fordham University School of Law

M.A. - Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere - University of Southern California

B.A. - English - Tufts University