Lauren Dansey is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and currently serves as the vice chair of the firm’s global Associates Committee.

Lauren has a wide range of experience in several areas of law implicating different industries, legal issues, and factual scenarios. Her specialty is managing complex discovery and assisting as trial counsel. She has played a leading role in all stages of litigation and has been a key team member in multiple trials and final hearings. Lauren regularly represents high-profile clients in the tech industry in a variety of lawsuits and government inquiries on a wide range of issues. She has also represented Am 100 firms in legal malpractice suits.

Recent representative matters include:

• Represented leading technology company in high-profile antitrust lawsuit in a three-week bench trial in the Northern District of California in 2021 only nine months after filing. Lead member of discovery team that handled complex e-discovery issues and key member of trial team, including second-chairing witness exams. Currently representing the company in a related class action pending in California state court and another lawsuit alleging various state court claims, including false advertising and unfair competition.
• Represented technology company in responding to various global antitrust investigations, class actions, individual civil suits and criminal complaints.
• Represented law firm against claims of professional negligence.  Lead associate on defensive discovery efforts, including all responses, document productions, and meet and confers, and managing multiple fact witness and expert workstreams.
• Represented an executive of a Fortune 500 company in a two-week SEC enforcement hearing.
• Successfully represented a hospital in a two-week civil jury trial in the Northern District of California and successfully defended the jury’s determination in a Ninth Circuit Appeal.

Lauren also maintains an active pro bono practice, including the following matters:

• Represents an individual who was shot at close range in the face with a rubber bullet by the Los Angeles Police Department while peacefully protesting on May 30, 2020.
• Represents a homeowner against a receiver and the City of Berkeley regarding the scope and costs of mismanaged repair work.
• Represents a minor from Guatemala in removal proceedings, including appearances in state court regarding Special Immigrant Juvenile Status findings.

Lauren received her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School in 2016, where she was the Associate Editor of the Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law, as well as the Michigan Journal of Race & Law. While in law school, Lauren was also a member of the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic and site leader for the Public Benefits Advocacy Project.

She earned her B.A. in Political Science from University of California, Berkeley in 2011. She wrote her senior thesis on Asian economic regionalism. Prior to joining the firm, Lauren taught high school special education in Richmond, California through Teach for America.

Lauren is admitted to practice law in the State of California.