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Colleen Bal
Partner
Colleen is a nationally recognized trial lawyer with a proven track record of handling difficult and high-profile cases for leading technology, life sciences, and financial companies.
John P. Flynn
Partner
John is a veteran trial lawyer with 30 years of experience in high-stakes, enterprise-threatening corporate and commercial litigation.
Gary R. Greenstein
Partner
Gary represents companies in transactions with record labels, music publishers, and program suppliers focusing on intellectual property, licensing, and commercial transactions.
Victor Jih
Partner
Victor has extensive experience as a commercial litigator in a wide range of complex business disputes at both the trial and appellate levels.
David H. Kramer
Partner
David represents companies facing challenging disputes involving novel issues of law.
Samantha Alexandria-Booth Machock
Partner
Samantha Machock is a partner in the San Diego office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the internet strategy and litigation group. Samantha’s practice focuses on representing technology and healthcare companies in complex, high-stakes consumer class and mass actions, particularly those involving cutting-edge consumer protection, false advertising, privacy, and cybersecurity-related claims. She has secured victories for her clients on a wide range of dispositive motions and class action issues: Recent victories include dismissal of claims against a generative AI service for allegedly misleading users, dismissal of a putative TCPA class action, and dismissal of claims seeking to create novel privacy rights for drivers under California’s Unfair Competition Law. Samantha is currently lead counsel for YouTube and Google in hundreds of cases alleging youth addiction and other harms as a result of YouTube’s design.
Maneesha Mithal
Partner
Maneesha Mithal is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini and co-chair of the firm’s data, privacy, and cybersecurity practice. Maneesha advises clients on privacy, cybersecurity, and consumer protection matters and represents companies in regulatory investigations. She is also one of the founding members of Wilson Sonsini’s AI group.
Maura L. Rees
Partner
Maura is an experienced litigator who represents clients in complex commercial litigation and IP-related disputes, including copyright, trademark, patent, and antitrust matters, as well as consumer class actions.
Tracy Shapiro
Partner
Tracy Shapiro is a partner in Wilson Sonsini’s San Francisco office, where she advises on privacy, data security, artificial intelligence, and advertising issues, and defends clients in investigations and enforcement actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), state attorneys general, and Congress.
Thomas R. Wakefield
Partner
Tom Wakefield is a partner with the firm’s internet strategy and litigation group. Based in San Francisco, Tom focuses his practice on emerging issues in internet law, with deep expertise in data privacy, copyright law, and class-action practice. His clients include Google, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube, Roblox, and Substack. Tom has litigated claims that threatened his clients’ core businesses, including cases that tested the boundaries of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and that pursued novel theories of liability under an array of privacy laws, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). In addition to litigating, Tom serves as a trusted advisor to innovative companies on privacy, copyright, artificial intelligence, web scraping, and the terms of service that govern technology platforms, including issues around online contracting, arbitration clauses, and mass-arbitration defenses.
Lauren Gallo White
Partner
Lauren represents internet and digital media companies in complex, high-stakes litigation related to online speech, privacy, and intellectual property.
Brian M. Willen
Partner
Brian represents companies facing challenging disputes involving novel issues of law.
Lisa D. Zang
Partner
Lisa D. Zang is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she specializes in internet strategy and IP litigation.
Lydia B. Parnes
Partner Emeritus
Lydia co-leads Wilson Sonsini's global privacy and cybersecurity practice and she advises clients on privacy and cybersecurity matters.