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)