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Advertising, Promotions, and Marketing

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  • Insightful Advertising Advice

    We advise clients on substantiation of claims in advertising and marketing campaigns; promotions, contests, and sweepstakes; false advertising; and FTC regulations and guidance on endorsements, environmental claims, subscription services, “Made in USA,” and reviews, advertising substantiation requirements, among others.

  • Advertising Case Experience

    Our team, which includes former senior officials from the FTC and skilled litigators, has significant experience representing companies in false advertising matters, including in federal court litigation, disputes before the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau (NAD), and FTC and state regulatory investigations.

  • Strategic Counseling on Marketing Communications

    We routinely advise clients engaged in social media marketing, email communications, marketing calls or texts, including compliance with the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the FTC’s Endorsement Guides, and the CAN SPAM Act, and on incoming litigation threats and defense related to alleged non-compliance.

Business success is driven by the strength and vitality of a company’s marketplace identity. As companies vigorously compete for increments of market share, that commonly entails competition for customers through advertising and promotions.

We can do more than relate. Our clients are the disruptors, market-makers, and even renegades in the global economy seeking to convert game-changing ideas into world-changing products and rare skills into innovative services.

Our team of seasoned attorneys advise clients when they launch, expand, and explore. Our approach is client-driven and designed to integrate seamlessly and efficiently with now- and next-generation entities that move at the speed of business.

Like our clients, we’re in it to win, whether that means market entry, market-share gain, outmaneuvering competitors, or protecting profits.

What We Do: Our Comprehensive Practice

We excel at providing insightful advice concerning all aspects of advertising, promotions, and marketing. Regardless of our client’s stage of maturity—from growth-minded start-ups to multinational companies with operations and customers around the world—we work closely with clients to develop sophisticated strategies to build and grow brands and marketing content as they pursue their most important business objectives.

Our interdisciplinary team provides a comprehensive scope of services, from the initial stages of selecting business and product names, launches, and leveraging unique characteristics of products and services to later phases of ongoing advertising and promotional campaigns and protecting clients against competitors.

Wilson Sonsini’s substantial experience working with clients in areas of critical importance to the success of their businesses includes, for example:

  • Advertising and marketing claims and promotional campaigns (email marketing and messaging, contests and sweepstakes, consumer coupon offers, loyalty programs, discount promotions, gift cards, and special offers)
  • Brand selection, brand-building campaigns, and brand protection
  • Marketing and advertising agreements and commercial transactions driven by brands, content, and advertising (including strategic alliances, partnerships, and joint ventures; asset sales and spinouts; advertising and PR agency agreements; and content and trademark licenses, among others)
  • Testimonials, endorsements, and influencers
  • Personalized advertising, including liability allocation concerns among advertisers, publishers, ad networks, lead generators, data matching services, and other entities in the ad-tech ecosystem
  • Data collection, intelligence, and marketing research
  • Social media marketing and website-related issues, including domain names, social media handles, and commercial speech issues
  • Ad agency initiatives, media relations inquiries, and public relations initiatives
  • Regulatory guidance and responding to agency inquiries and reviews

Who We Represent: Our Clients Across Key Industries

Our team works with clients that range from innovative start-ups to industry leaders in a wide variety of technology sectors, including:

  • Animal Health
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Aviation
  • Biotechnology
  • Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
  • Clean Energy
  • Climate and Clean Technologies
  • Communications and Networking
  • Consumer Products and Services
  • Data Storage and Cloud
  • Digital Health
  • Digital Media and Entertainment
  • Electronic Gaming
  • Financial Services
  • Fintech
  • FoodTech and Agtech
  • Fintech and Financial Services
  • Global Generics
  • Internet
  • Life Sciences
  • Medical Devices
  • Mobile Devices
  • Mobility
  • NewSpace
  • Semiconductors
  • Software

Our Scope of Practice: Global Reach and Capabilities

While we align well with key business markets in the U.S. and globally, we work with our clients wherever they engage in business and competition. For example, our team in Brussels engages regularly with EU regulators and can guide companies dealing with European rules on personalized advertising and dark patterns, as well as the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act. In certain regions around the world, we work closely with a trusted network of global counsel to guide our clients as they expand into competitive international markets.

Whether we are assisting during the early stages of a client’s entry into new or established markets or advising market leaders aiming to protect their share of the market, our team is adept at devising comprehensive, proactive strategies that help clients enter, execute, and leverage what matters most to their businesses.

Overview

Business success is driven by the strength and vitality of a company’s marketplace identity. As companies vigorously compete for increments of market share, that commonly entails competition for customers through advertising and promotions.

We can do more than relate. Our clients are the disruptors, market-makers, and even renegades in the global economy seeking to convert game-changing ideas into world-changing products and rare skills into innovative services.

Our team of seasoned attorneys advise clients when they launch, expand, and explore. Our approach is client-driven and designed to integrate seamlessly and efficiently with now- and next-generation entities that move at the speed of business.

Like our clients, we’re in it to win, whether that means market entry, market-share gain, outmaneuvering competitors, or protecting profits.

What We Do: Our Comprehensive Practice

We excel at providing insightful advice concerning all aspects of advertising, promotions, and marketing. Regardless of our client’s stage of maturity—from growth-minded start-ups to multinational companies with operations and customers around the world—we work closely with clients to develop sophisticated strategies to build and grow brands and marketing content as they pursue their most important business objectives.

Our interdisciplinary team provides a comprehensive scope of services, from the initial stages of selecting business and product names, launches, and leveraging unique characteristics of products and services to later phases of ongoing advertising and promotional campaigns and protecting clients against competitors.

Wilson Sonsini’s substantial experience working with clients in areas of critical importance to the success of their businesses includes, for example:

  • Advertising and marketing claims and promotional campaigns (email marketing and messaging, contests and sweepstakes, consumer coupon offers, loyalty programs, discount promotions, gift cards, and special offers)
  • Brand selection, brand-building campaigns, and brand protection
  • Marketing and advertising agreements and commercial transactions driven by brands, content, and advertising (including strategic alliances, partnerships, and joint ventures; asset sales and spinouts; advertising and PR agency agreements; and content and trademark licenses, among others)
  • Testimonials, endorsements, and influencers
  • Personalized advertising, including liability allocation concerns among advertisers, publishers, ad networks, lead generators, data matching services, and other entities in the ad-tech ecosystem
  • Data collection, intelligence, and marketing research
  • Social media marketing and website-related issues, including domain names, social media handles, and commercial speech issues
  • Ad agency initiatives, media relations inquiries, and public relations initiatives
  • Regulatory guidance and responding to agency inquiries and reviews

Who We Represent: Our Clients Across Key Industries

Our team works with clients that range from innovative start-ups to industry leaders in a wide variety of technology sectors, including:

  • Animal Health
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Aviation
  • Biotechnology
  • Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
  • Clean Energy
  • Climate and Clean Technologies
  • Communications and Networking
  • Consumer Products and Services
  • Data Storage and Cloud
  • Digital Health
  • Digital Media and Entertainment
  • Electronic Gaming
  • Financial Services
  • Fintech
  • FoodTech and Agtech
  • Fintech and Financial Services
  • Global Generics
  • Internet
  • Life Sciences
  • Medical Devices
  • Mobile Devices
  • Mobility
  • NewSpace
  • Semiconductors
  • Software

Our Scope of Practice: Global Reach and Capabilities

While we align well with key business markets in the U.S. and globally, we work with our clients wherever they engage in business and competition. For example, our team in Brussels engages regularly with EU regulators and can guide companies dealing with European rules on personalized advertising and dark patterns, as well as the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act. In certain regions around the world, we work closely with a trusted network of global counsel to guide our clients as they expand into competitive international markets.

Whether we are assisting during the early stages of a client’s entry into new or established markets or advising market leaders aiming to protect their share of the market, our team is adept at devising comprehensive, proactive strategies that help clients enter, execute, and leverage what matters most to their businesses.

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The ELVIS Act: Setting the Stage for Policing Unauthorized Use of AI-Generated Sound and Likeness
Last month, Tennessee, birthplace of the “King of Rock and Roll,” broadened the state’s already robust right of publicity statute by passing the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act (the so-called “ELVIS Act”). The ELVIS Act, which goes into effect on July 1, breaks new ground by specifically targeting generative artificial intelligence (AI) platforms and services that potentially enable the use of people’s likeness without permission. Other states, and potentially Congress, may soon follow Tennessee’s “opening act” in broadening right of publicity protections focused on uses of generative AI.
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FTC Seeks Comments on Proposed Rule Requiring Disclosure of Fees in Consumer Goods and Services
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed rule that would regulate a broad range of “junk fees” in consumer goods and services, from resort fees associated with travel and lodging, to delivery fees associated with meal and grocery delivery, to convenience fees associated with financial services (the proposed rule). The proposed rule would generally prohibit the omission of mandatory fees from advertised prices. If finalized, violations of the proposed rule could result in civil penalties of up to $50,120 per violation. The public has 60 days to comment after the proposal is published in the Federal Register.
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2026 Antitrust Year in Preview: Algorithmic Pricing
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Entering 2026, Wilson Sonsini litigators see a landscape defined by AI driven disputes, continued tightening of patent review standards, renewed securities and governance litigation, stronger consumer and influencer enforcement, and escalating Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) exposure—trends that require companies to align legal strategy with technical and operational controls.
Alerts
FTC Issues Final Rule Banning Fake and Misleading Consumer Reviews and Testimonials
On August 14, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule that prohibits publishing or trading in fake or misleading consumer reviews and testimonials, or engaging in other related deceptive promotional tactics. Notably, under the FTC’s new rule, the commission will be authorized to seek civil penalties against violators.
Alerts
The ELVIS Act: Setting the Stage for Policing Unauthorized Use of AI-Generated Sound and Likeness
Last month, Tennessee, birthplace of the “King of Rock and Roll,” broadened the state’s already robust right of publicity statute by passing the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act (the so-called “ELVIS Act”). The ELVIS Act, which goes into effect on July 1, breaks new ground by specifically targeting generative artificial intelligence (AI) platforms and services that potentially enable the use of people’s likeness without permission. Other states, and potentially Congress, may soon follow Tennessee’s “opening act” in broadening right of publicity protections focused on uses of generative AI.
Alerts
FTC Seeks Comments on Proposed Rule Requiring Disclosure of Fees in Consumer Goods and Services
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed rule that would regulate a broad range of “junk fees” in consumer goods and services, from resort fees associated with travel and lodging, to delivery fees associated with meal and grocery delivery, to convenience fees associated with financial services (the proposed rule). The proposed rule would generally prohibit the omission of mandatory fees from advertised prices. If finalized, violations of the proposed rule could result in civil penalties of up to $50,120 per violation. The public has 60 days to comment after the proposal is published in the Federal Register.
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Association of Corporate Counsel San Francisco Bay Area CLE: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department (San Francisco)
In-house counsel are invited to join Wilson Sonsini attorneys Alyssa Worsham and Christine Au-Yeung for an ACC San Francisco Bay Area CLE program titled “Marketing 101: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department” in San Francisco on Wednesday, October 30. Alyssa and Christine will be joined by Stephanie Hall, Director of Trademark & Brand at Lyft, and will discuss how to be an effective legal voice to your marketing and brand teams as they launch innovative products on a global scale, embrace opportunities in social media, and leverage influencers and endorsements in their marketing initiatives. The program will also cover new FTC rules on using reviews and testimonials in marketing and ways to promote brands through sweepstakes and contests.  
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Association of Corporate Counsel San Francisco Bay Area CLE: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department (Palo Alto)
In-house counsel are invited to join Wilson Sonsini attorneys Alyssa Worsham and Christine Au-Yeung for an ACC San Francisco Bay Area CLE program titled “Marketing 101: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department” in Palo Alto on Tuesday, October 29. Alyssa and Christine will be joined by Stephanie Hall, Director of Trademark & Brand at Lyft, and will discuss how to be an effective legal voice to your marketing and brand teams as they launch innovative products on a global scale, embrace opportunities in social media, and leverage influencers and endorsements in their marketing initiatives. The program will also cover new FTC rules on using reviews and testimonials in marketing and ways to promote brands through sweepstakes and contests.  
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Association of Corporate Counsel San Francisco Bay Area CLE: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department (San Francisco)
In-house counsel are invited to join Wilson Sonsini attorneys Alyssa Worsham and Christine Au-Yeung for an ACC San Francisco Bay Area CLE program titled “Marketing 101: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department” in San Francisco on Wednesday, October 30. Alyssa and Christine will be joined by Stephanie Hall, Director of Trademark & Brand at Lyft, and will discuss how to be an effective legal voice to your marketing and brand teams as they launch innovative products on a global scale, embrace opportunities in social media, and leverage influencers and endorsements in their marketing initiatives. The program will also cover new FTC rules on using reviews and testimonials in marketing and ways to promote brands through sweepstakes and contests.  
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Association of Corporate Counsel San Francisco Bay Area CLE: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department (Palo Alto)
In-house counsel are invited to join Wilson Sonsini attorneys Alyssa Worsham and Christine Au-Yeung for an ACC San Francisco Bay Area CLE program titled “Marketing 101: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department” in Palo Alto on Tuesday, October 29. Alyssa and Christine will be joined by Stephanie Hall, Director of Trademark & Brand at Lyft, and will discuss how to be an effective legal voice to your marketing and brand teams as they launch innovative products on a global scale, embrace opportunities in social media, and leverage influencers and endorsements in their marketing initiatives. The program will also cover new FTC rules on using reviews and testimonials in marketing and ways to promote brands through sweepstakes and contests.  
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AI on the Lot
AI on the Lot is a pioneering summit that unites independent filmmakers, showrunners, studio executives, and top AI technology companies to explore the transformative influence of Artificial Intelligence on Hollywood. This groundbreaking event will explore AI's impact on the writer's room, production, post-production, VFX, animation, and new business models. Attendees can expect thought-provoking panel discussions, AI demos, and opening remarks by Cynthia Littleton, Co-Editor-in-Chief at Variety, aimed at fostering collaboration, innovation, and shaping the future of entertainment.
Christine K. Au-Yeung
Partner
San Francisco
Christine Au-Yeung is a partner in the San Francisco and Palo Alto offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she specializes in trademark, copyright, and advertising law. She counsels clients on all aspects of brand protection in the U.S. and throughout the world, including clearance and selection of trademarks, prosecution of trademark applications, licensing, and the resolution of trademark infringement and domain name disputes. She also advises clients on advertising issues, including TCPA compliance related to marketing calls and texts as well as strategies on promotions such as sweepstakes and contests.
  • Trademark and Advertising
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Aaron D. Hendelman
Partner
Seattle
Aaron heads the firm's trademark and advertising practice, focusing on the areas of trademark, advertising, unfair competition, copyright, retail, rights of publicity, social media, and consumer law.
  • Trademark and Advertising
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Maneesha Mithal
Partner
Washington, D.C.
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.
  • Data, Privacy, and Cybersecurity
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Christopher N. Olsen
Partner
Washington, D.C.
Christopher advises clients on all aspects of privacy and cybersecurity matters and represents companies under investigation by the FTC and state attorneys general.
  • Data, Privacy, and Cybersecurity
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Tracy Shapiro
Partner
San Francisco
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.
  • Data, Privacy, and Cybersecurity
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Lauren Gallo White
Partner
San Francisco
Lauren represents internet and digital media companies in complex, high-stakes litigation related to online speech, privacy, and intellectual property.
  • Litigation
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Brian M. Willen
Partner
New York
Brian represents companies facing challenging disputes involving novel issues of law. 
  • Litigation
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Alyssa M. Worsham
Partner
Seattle
Alyssa Worsham is a member of the firm’s trademark and advertising team, which has been recognized in Chambers and Partners’ USA and Global guides, as well as World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000. She focuses on global strategic advice, litigation strategy, and transactional guidance for clients’ trademarks, branding, and advertising in marketplaces where commercial and geographic lines are increasingly blurring. She helps clients assess the risk in selecting new business and product names, and works with them to build, exploit, and protect these names creatively and strategically. Alyssa advises on trademark disputes, domain name disputes, contests and sweepstakes, advertising review, right of publicity, social media issues, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) compliance (i.e., the rules surrounding marketing texts and calls), FTC compliance and investigations, copyright, IP diligence, and associated commercial contracts. She works with software companies, biotech start-ups, cosmetics companies, fashion companies, life sciences and digital health companies, agro-tech companies, consumer products, non-profits, and game developers, among others. She advises founders, CEOs, GCs, IP specialists, and chief marketing officers on the critical issues surrounding brand creation, protection, and strategy.
  • Trademark and Advertising
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Eva F. Yin
Partner
Seattle
Eva Yin, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s FDA regulatory, healthcare, and consumer products practice. Her practice includes conducting FDA and healthcare regulatory due diligence for corporate transactions; providing legal counsel to manufacturers regarding FDA approval/clearance for various products—including medical devices, mobile apps, and drugs, FDA compliance, regulation of promotional materials and labeling, and manufacturer compliance under federal and state healthcare laws, e.g., the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), False Claims Act (FCA), Sunshine Act, state licensing laws, corporate practice of medicine, etc.; reviewing contracts and compliance policies for manufacturers; and providing legal analysis and risk assessment of business models and fee arrangements involving patient assistance programs, healthcare professionals, or hospitals/clinics under federal and state healthcare laws and regulations.
  • Regulatory
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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.
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Christine K. Au-Yeung
Partner
San Francisco
Christine Au-Yeung is a partner in the San Francisco and Palo Alto offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she specializes in trademark, copyright, and advertising law. She counsels clients on all aspects of brand protection in the U.S. and throughout the world, including clearance and selection of trademarks, prosecution of trademark applications, licensing, and the resolution of trademark infringement and domain name disputes. She also advises clients on advertising issues, including TCPA compliance related to marketing calls and texts as well as strategies on promotions such as sweepstakes and contests.
  • Trademark and Advertising
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Aaron D. Hendelman
Partner
Seattle
Aaron heads the firm's trademark and advertising practice, focusing on the areas of trademark, advertising, unfair competition, copyright, retail, rights of publicity, social media, and consumer law.
  • Trademark and Advertising
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Maneesha Mithal
Partner
Washington, D.C.
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.
  • Data, Privacy, and Cybersecurity
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Christopher N. Olsen
Partner
Washington, D.C.
Christopher advises clients on all aspects of privacy and cybersecurity matters and represents companies under investigation by the FTC and state attorneys general.
  • Data, Privacy, and Cybersecurity
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Tracy Shapiro
Partner
San Francisco
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.
  • Data, Privacy, and Cybersecurity
View Profile
Lauren Gallo White
Partner
San Francisco
Lauren represents internet and digital media companies in complex, high-stakes litigation related to online speech, privacy, and intellectual property.
  • Litigation
View Profile
Brian M. Willen
Partner
New York
Brian represents companies facing challenging disputes involving novel issues of law. 
  • Litigation
View Profile
Alyssa M. Worsham
Partner
Seattle
Alyssa Worsham is a member of the firm’s trademark and advertising team, which has been recognized in Chambers and Partners’ USA and Global guides, as well as World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000. She focuses on global strategic advice, litigation strategy, and transactional guidance for clients’ trademarks, branding, and advertising in marketplaces where commercial and geographic lines are increasingly blurring. She helps clients assess the risk in selecting new business and product names, and works with them to build, exploit, and protect these names creatively and strategically. Alyssa advises on trademark disputes, domain name disputes, contests and sweepstakes, advertising review, right of publicity, social media issues, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) compliance (i.e., the rules surrounding marketing texts and calls), FTC compliance and investigations, copyright, IP diligence, and associated commercial contracts. She works with software companies, biotech start-ups, cosmetics companies, fashion companies, life sciences and digital health companies, agro-tech companies, consumer products, non-profits, and game developers, among others. She advises founders, CEOs, GCs, IP specialists, and chief marketing officers on the critical issues surrounding brand creation, protection, and strategy.
  • Trademark and Advertising
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Eva F. Yin
Partner
Seattle
Eva Yin, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s FDA regulatory, healthcare, and consumer products practice. Her practice includes conducting FDA and healthcare regulatory due diligence for corporate transactions; providing legal counsel to manufacturers regarding FDA approval/clearance for various products—including medical devices, mobile apps, and drugs, FDA compliance, regulation of promotional materials and labeling, and manufacturer compliance under federal and state healthcare laws, e.g., the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), False Claims Act (FCA), Sunshine Act, state licensing laws, corporate practice of medicine, etc.; reviewing contracts and compliance policies for manufacturers; and providing legal analysis and risk assessment of business models and fee arrangements involving patient assistance programs, healthcare professionals, or hospitals/clinics under federal and state healthcare laws and regulations.
  • Regulatory
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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.
  • Data, Privacy, and Cybersecurity
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  • Internet Strategy and Litigation
  • Patents and Innovations
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  • Federal Trade Commission
  • Technology Transactions
  • Trademark and Advertising
  • Trademark and Copyright Litigation
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2026 Antitrust Year in Preview
Last year was a landmark in the development of antitrust law. Enforcers, legislators, and private parties grappled with the fundamental shift represented by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the resolution of important digital technology antitrust cases, and significant divergence in policy across a presidential administration transition. The changes will not stop in 2026. In this preview, we focus on several economic sectors that were most impacted by developments in antitrust law in 2025 to identify the trends that will drive governmental and private activity in antitrust in 2026.
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Association of Corporate Counsel San Francisco Bay Area CLE: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department (San Francisco)
In-house counsel are invited to join Wilson Sonsini attorneys Alyssa Worsham and Christine Au-Yeung for an ACC San Francisco Bay Area CLE program titled “Marketing 101: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department” in San Francisco on Wednesday, October 30. Alyssa and Christine will be joined by Stephanie Hall, Director of Trademark & Brand at Lyft, and will discuss how to be an effective legal voice to your marketing and brand teams as they launch innovative products on a global scale, embrace opportunities in social media, and leverage influencers and endorsements in their marketing initiatives. The program will also cover new FTC rules on using reviews and testimonials in marketing and ways to promote brands through sweepstakes and contests.  
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Association of Corporate Counsel San Francisco Bay Area CLE: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department (Palo Alto)
In-house counsel are invited to join Wilson Sonsini attorneys Alyssa Worsham and Christine Au-Yeung for an ACC San Francisco Bay Area CLE program titled “Marketing 101: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department” in Palo Alto on Tuesday, October 29. Alyssa and Christine will be joined by Stephanie Hall, Director of Trademark & Brand at Lyft, and will discuss how to be an effective legal voice to your marketing and brand teams as they launch innovative products on a global scale, embrace opportunities in social media, and leverage influencers and endorsements in their marketing initiatives. The program will also cover new FTC rules on using reviews and testimonials in marketing and ways to promote brands through sweepstakes and contests.  
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