Ariel C. Green Anaba is a trial and appellate attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati who represents plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes disputes. Her experience teaching complicated subjects like cell biology and chemistry allows her to distill complex problems into a cohesive narrative that resonates with juries and jurists.

Ariel handles every stage of litigation, including pre-suit diligence, overseeing fact and expert discovery, taking and defending fact and expert depositions, expert reports, claim construction briefs, evidentiary and dispositive motions, trial examinations (both direct and cross), pre- and post-trial briefs, amicus briefs, and appeals. She guides clients through complex disputes across a diverse range of sectors, including CAR-T therapies, nucleic acid amplification technologies, medical devices, computer software, privacy, energy, consumer products, trademarks, trade secrets, entertainment, civil rights, and web applications. Ariel represents clients in federal and state courts across the country, including working on trial teams in Delaware and the Northern District of California.

Notably, Ariel played a key role in the trial team that secured a patent infringement verdict  that was recognized in The National Law Journal’s 2021 “Verdicts Hall of Fame” and among the “Top 100 Verdicts of 2020” for being one of the 10 largest verdicts in the country.  Following a lengthy jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, jurors found willful infringement of two patents covering virtualization technology.

Ariel took the direct examination of the patentee’s CEO and cross-examined the defendant’s Chief Research and Innovation Officer at trial; developed winning trial strategy and themes; first-chaired numerous trial depositions, including the defendant’s senior executive, the patentee’s CEO and former CFO, and other high-level/C-suite executives from all parties; and drafted numerous pre- and post-trial briefs, including before the Federal Circuit.

Ariel also played a key role in securing a $15 million verdict in the Northern District of California following a three-week patent infringement trial about internet technologies.  She took the direct examination of the patentee’s CEO, mentored junior attorneys on effective strategies for witness preparation, and developed winning trial strategy and themes.

Ariel believes in giving back to her community through pro bono work. She currently represents June and Angie Provost of Provost Farm, an agricultural operation and activism hub founded to preserve the ancestral legacies of South Louisiana’s Black and Brown farmers. The Provosts’ years-long dispute in fighting for their land and livelihood was featured in The New York Times’ award-winning “1619” series. Ariel also recently secured, following a five-year saga in the Ninth Circuit, Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Seattle Immigration Court, deferral of removal of a bisexual man from Nigeria.

Prior to joining the firm, Ariel was a partner at Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg, an elite trial boutique headquartered in Palo Alto. Before that, Ariel was a litigation associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. Following law school, Ariel served as a law clerk for the Honorable Judge John A. Kronstadt of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the Honorable Judge Raymond C. Fisher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Before pursuing her legal career, Ariel researched how the microtubule binding behavior of dynactin affects the processivity of the cytoskeletal motor protein dynein.