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Wesley Sze

Wesley
Sze

Associate Attorney

CONTACT INFO

wsze@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+1 650.849.5347

Palo Alto

1881 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1211 USA

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PRACTICE

Litigation Appellate and Constitutional Law Class Actions Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Securities Litigation

BIOGRAPHY

Wesley Sze is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the Firm’s Class Actions, Privacy, White Collar Defense and Investigations, and Appellate Practice Groups.

Mr. Sze represents leading companies in a wide range of complex litigation and has significant experience in all phases of litigation, including pre-trial discovery and substantive motions practice, with an emphasis on claims involving federal and state consumer fraud laws, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and negligence and products liability laws.  Mr. Sze also maintains an active pro bono practice, with a focus on immigrant rights and constitutional litigation.

Select Representative Matters

  • Representing leading software and hardware technology company in multidistrict class action litigation and parallel multijurisdictional regulatory and enforcement actions.
  • Defending leading cloud-based software provider against securities class action involving claims under Section 11 and Section 12 of the Securities Act of 1933.
  • Representing leading software support services provider in copyright and licensing dispute regarding enterprise resource planning software.
  • Defending multiple individuals and companies in connection with ongoing criminal fraud investigations and prosecutions.
  • Secured dismissal of multiple negligence and products liability actions against leading technology company on the pleadings, and defended those dismissals on appeal.
  • Obtained order decertifying Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action against major technology company.
  • Obtained seven-figure judgment against former employee of telecommunications company for embezzlement of corporate funds.
  • Secured dismissal of Section 16(b) “short-swing” profits claim involving novel issues regarding the withholding of restricted stock units, and successfully defended the judgment on appeal to the Tenth Circuit.

Select Pro Bono Matters

  • Won preliminary injunction ordering immediate reunification of asylum seeker and her 3-year-old son, who had been forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.
  • Obtained order reversing of illegal seizure of veterans disability benefits from inmate trust account.
  • Secured immediate release of immunocompromised asylum seeker from immigration detention facility.
  • Successfully represented unaccompanied minor from El Salvador in securing asylum.
  • Obtained reversal from the Board of Immigration Appeals based on erroneous credibility determinations by immigration judge.

Mr. Sze received his law degree from Stanford Law School, where he served as a Technical Managing Editor and Notes Editor of the Stanford Law Review.  His Stanford Law Review note was awarded the 2016 Scribes Law-Review Award for the best student-written article in a law review or journal.

Mr. Sze earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of British Columbia, where he graduated as class valedictorian.  Before law school, Mr. Sze conducted monetary policy research at the Bank of Canada.

Mr. Sze is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of California.

Publication

Did X Mark the Spot?: Brand X and the Scope of Agency Overrides of Judicial Decisions, 68 Stan. L. Rev. 235 (2016)

EDUCATION

Stanford University - 2015 Juris Doctor

University of British Columbia - 2011 Bachelor of Arts

ADMISSIONS

California Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Client Alert - January 26, 2023 | Year-End and Fourth Quarter 2022 Update on Class Actions
Client Alert - October 31, 2022 | Third Quarter 2022 Update on Class Actions
Client Alert - July 28, 2022 | Second Quarter 2022 Update on Class Actions
Client Alert - April 28, 2022 | First Quarter 2022 Update on Class Actions
Client Alert - April 11, 2022 | Ninth Circuit Issues Important En Banc Opinion Regarding Class Certification Issues
Client Alert - January 27, 2022 | Year-End and Fourth Quarter 2021 Update on Class Actions
Client Alert - November 2, 2021 | Third Quarter 2021 Update on Class Actions
Client Alert - August 23, 2021 | Second Quarter 2021 Update on Class Actions
Client Alert - April 28, 2021 | First Quarter 2021 Update on Class Actions
Client Alert - January 22, 2021 | Year-End and Fourth Quarter 2020 Update on Class Actions
Client Alert - July 24, 2020 | Second Quarter 2020 Update on Class Actions
Client Alert - February 26, 2020 | 4 Questions That May Signal The End Of TCPA Class Actions
Client Alert - July 25, 2019 | Second Quarter 2019 Update on Class Actions
Publications - January 18, 2019 | Fourth Quarter 2018 Update on Class Actions
Pro Bono - October 19, 2018 | Gibson Dunn Tackles Family Separation at the Border
Client Alert - May 4, 2018 | First Quarter 2018 Update on Class Actions
Client Alert - November 7, 2017 | Third Quarter 2017 Update on Class Actions
Article - April 26, 2016 | FCPA Program Continues Focus on Individuals
Client Alert - February 17, 2016 | 2015 Year-End Transnational Litigation Update
Client Alert - January 11, 2016 | 2015 Year-End Securities Enforcement Update
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