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Sonya Winner, a partner in the firm's San Francisco office, focuses primarily on complex civil litigation. Her cases typically involve difficult technical issues and/or complex legal and regulatory schemes. She has handled numerous antitrust and consumer disputes, many of them class actions, for clients in the banking, pharmaceuticals, and professional sports industries. She has also handled several patent and trade-secret cases involving a variety of technologies, including microfluidics, microprocessor design, and biotechnology. She has tried cases before judges and juries in numerous courts, both in California and elsewhere.
Representative Matters
- Representation of Wells Fargo Bank in multiple class actions under California’s Unfair Competition Law (Section 17200) involving disclosures and other banking issues;
- Representation of Bank of America in a nationwide antitrust class action challenging interchange fees on ATM transactions;
- Representation of Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals in an antitrust and unfair trade practices lawsuit involving authorized generic pharmaceuticals;
Honors and Rankings
- San Francisco and Los Angeles Daily Journal, Top Women Litigators (2007-2008)
- Legal 500 US, Trade Secrets - Integrated Service, Advice and Litigation (2007)
- Northern California Super Lawyers, Antitrust Litigation (2005-2007)
Publications and Speeches
- "Recent Developments in the Law of Federal Preemption," California Bankers Association Bank Counsel Seminar (3/30/2006)
- "Litigating in Light of 'Festo'," ACI Eighth National Advanced Forum on Litigating Patent Disputes (March 2003)
- "Holmes v. Vornado: Impact on Federal Circuit Jurisdiction," ACI Eighth National Advanced Forum on Litigating Patent Disputes (March 2003)
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