|
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) and Consumer Legal Remedies Act involving disclosures and other banking issues.
- Representation of the San Francisco 49ers in a lawsuit challenging the National Football League’s pat-down policy;
- 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
- Chambers USA - America's Leading Business Lawyers, Litigation/General Commercial (2010-2011)
- San Francisco and Los Angeles Daily Journal, Top Women Litigators (2007-2010)
- Northern California Super Lawyers, Antitrust Litigation (2005-2010)
- Legal 500 US, Trade Secrets - Integrated Service, Advice and Litigation (2007)
Publications and Speeches
|