Clients in the technology, digital advertising, and healthcare industries turn to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP for its investigations and litigation offering. The firm is equipped to handle regulatory, state, and federal government investigations and class actions, as well as data breaches and CRPA and biometric information privacy compliance. The practice is jointly led by Stephen Broome, Viola Trebicka, and Jennifer Barrett. Broome splits his time between Los Angeles and New York, regularly represents clients in data privacy and security class actions and investigations by the FTC, congress and state attorneys general. In Los Angeles, seasoned litigator Trebicka has a depth of experience in data privacy, consumer protection and class action litigation, with credentials successfully defending Fortune 100 companies. Barrett is based in New York, with a particular focus on data breach response and expertise extending to trial and appellate matters in intellectual property and trade secrets.
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Key clients
- Google LLC
- Snowflake Inc.
- Ancestry.com
- KIK Custom Products, Inc.
- Match Group Inc
- ZoomInfo Technologies
- Entertainment Partners LLC
- Cyderes Inc
- Take-Two Interactive, Inc.
- MyHeritage
- Cognizant
- Lakeview Loan Servicing
Work highlights
Defended Google against a nationwide class action alleging Google improperly collects browsing data while users are in their browsers’ “private browsing” mode.
Defend Snowflake Inc. in the Snowflake Data Breach MDL involving over 100 class actions.
Represents Ancestry.com in six putative class actions premised on electronic yearbook excerpts hosted on Ancestry’s website.
Practice head
Stephen A. Broome; Viola Trebicka; Jennifer Barrett