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Susannah Stroud WrightSusannah Stroud Wright
Associate Attorney
T: +1 650.849.5254
F: +1 650.849.5054
1881 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1211
USA

Susannah Stroud Wright is a former prosecutor and senior associate in the Palo Alto office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where she practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and its Class Action, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, and White Collar Defense and Investigations Groups. Ms. Wright’s practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, internal corporate investigations, and complex consumer class actions involving multinational companies in the technology and Internet sector. She has particular expertise in corporate anti-bribery compliance and issues surrounding the enforcement of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”).

Ms. Wright has also represented a variety of clients in intellectual property, products liability, and general commercial litigation matters.

Ms. Wright joined Gibson Dunn & Crutcher after serving as an Assistant District Attorney in the Fulton County District Attorney's Office in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was a member of the Community Prosecution Unit. As an Assistant District Attorney, Ms. Wright gained significant trial and courtroom experience prosecuting felony offenses including numerous high profile and repeat offender cases involving underprivileged communities in southeast Atlanta. She also worked directly with community organizations, political representatives, and the police to develop programs aimed at preventing and reducing crime.

Prior to her service as an Assistant District Attorney, Ms. Wright was an associate at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, Georgia for several years. She clerked for the Honorable Orinda D. Evans, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia from 2001 to 2002.

Ms. Wright graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law where she was a winner of the William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition and served as Managing Editor, Research and Projects, for the Virginia Journal of International Law. She received her A.B. in Classics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University.

Ms. Wright currently serves as the Co-Chair for Gibson Dunn’s Bay Area Diversity Committee.

Ms. Wright is admitted to practice in the states of California and Georgia.  She is also admitted to practice in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States District Courts for the Northern District of California and the Northern District of Georgia.

Representative Matters

Some of Ms. Wright’s recent engagements have included:

  • Conducting internal investigations (including FCPA related work) for multinational technology companies on matters arising in China, Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia.
  • Representing technology and Internet companies in investigations overseen by the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and state attorney general offices.
  • Counseling multinational companies on the structure and effectiveness of their FCPA compliance and training programs.
  • Representing a corporate victim of alleged trade secret theft and economic espionage in a federal government investigation and trial – one of the very first cases tried under the Economic Espionage Act.
  • Representing an investment management company in a suit filed against a competitor and several former officers and directors alleging theft of proprietary information, breach of fiduciary duties, and other claims.
  • Obtained dismissal with prejudice of consolidated class action against leading online review site alleging that Yelp! manipulates user reviews on behalf of advertising businesses on grounds that Yelp! is immune under Communications Decency Act Section 230.  Obtained dismissal of earlier complaint on grounds that plaintiffs had failed to plausibly allege facts demonstrating that fluctuations in user reviews were due to extortion, as opposed to the routine functioning of Yelp!’s automated review filter.  (Levitt v. Yelp, Inc.)

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