Joshua S. Lipshutz serves as Partner & Chief Operating Officer of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He practices in the Firm’s Litigation Department, and the Appellate and Constitutional Law, Privacy and Cybersecurity, and Class Actions Practice Groups.  Mr. Lipshutz is a member of the Firm’s Executive and Management Committees.

Mr. Lipshutz has been profiled by Law360 for his exceptional appellate experience (Appellate Practice Group of the Year), and in The National Law Journal  in both the General Litigation and Labor & Employment categories.  In 2022, Benchmark Litigation recognized Mr. Lipshutz on its inaugural Top 20 Labor & Employment Litigators list for the second consecutive year.  In 2019, Mr. Lipshutz was named a Law360 Cybersecurity and Data Privacy MVP, and a Benchmark California Litigation Star.

Mr. Lipshutz’s practice focuses primarily on constitutional, class action, data privacy, and securities-related matters.  A sample of recent and ongoing representations include:

• Facebook:  Mr. Lipshutz represents Facebook in numerous data privacy-related matters, including a series of putative class actions and government enforcement actions arising out of the Cambridge Analytica events.
• DoorDash:  Mr. Lipshutz represents DoorDash in a series of putative class actions and PAGA actions pending in California state and federal courts, asserting that DoorDash has misclassified delivery providers as independent contractors.
• CNN:  Mr. Lipshutz represented CNN and Jim Acosta in a dispute with President Trump regarding Mr. Acosta’s White House press credentials.  He secured injunctive relief restoring the press pass and safeguarding the protections of the First Amendment.

Mr. Lipshutz’s cases before the U.S. Supreme Court include the following:

• New Prime, Inc. v. Oliveira:  Sought to overturn a First Circuit ruling that the Federal Arbitration Act does not apply to independent contractors in the transportation sector.
• Daimler AG v. Bauman:  Secured a unanimous victory for Daimler in a case setting new limitations on the jurisdiction of U.S. courts over foreign corporations.
• The Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles:  Obtained a unanimous victory in the first Supreme Court decision to interpret the jurisdictional limits of the Class Action Fairness Act.
• Hollingsworth v. Perry:  Restored marriage equality to California in a historic decision striking down California’s Proposition 8 as unconstitutional.

Prior to attending law school, Mr. Lipshutz received his undergraduate degrees, summa cum laude, in finance and systems engineering, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He graduated Order of the Coif from Stanford Law School, where he was Senior Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review.  Mr. Lipshutz served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Honorable Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  Before practicing law, Mr. Lipshutz worked as a principal investment professional at Silver Lake Partners and as an investment banking associate at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Mr. Lipshutz is admitted to practice law in the State of California, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.