Rose Ring is a litigation partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a Co-Chair of the firm’s Technology Litigation Practice Group and the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Practice Group.
Rose’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on consumer class actions and intellectual property disputes. She has represented companies in litigation and government investigations involving a wide variety of technologies, including social media, online advertising, artificial intelligence, streaming digital media, mobile devices, and cloud platforms. Rose also has an active fashion law practice, representing companies such as Ermenegildo Zegna, Yves Saint Laurent and Versace in litigation, regulatory, and counseling matters on a range of issues, including privacy and IP enforcement.
Highly regarded as a leading tech litigator, Rose was recently named a 2024 MVP in Law360's Technology category. She has also consistently been named to The Recorder’s “Women Leaders in Tech Law,” including in 2023 and 2024. Rose has also been recognized as one of California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal and as one of the “500 Leading Litigators in America,” “500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers,” and “100 Leading AI & Legal Tech Advisors” by Lawdragon and a “Litigation Star” in California for class actions, data privacy and intellectual property by Benchmark Litigation.
Rose focuses on clients in the technology, consumer/retail, and media and entertainment industries, including Meta, LinkedIn, The Walt Disney Company, Verizon, Microsoft, and HTC. She also has an active pro bono practice and is committed to local legal and community organizations. Currently, she serves on the board of directors for the Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center of San Francisco and The Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings College of the Law and was a founding board member of the Bay Area Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society.
Rose earned her Juris Doctor from U.C. Berkeley School of Law and served as a law clerk to Judge Richard A. Paez on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She also served as a White House intern for then-Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta, and was a consultant with Accenture before attending law school.
Key Representations:
- Facebook in the first case to address potential for bias in the use of AI and algorithms, which, after nearly five years, resulted in a favorable resolution that the U.S. Department of Justice described as “historic.”
- Facebook in putative class actions challenging Facebook’s advertising platform as violating the Fair Housing Act, Title VII and other federal and state anti-discrimination laws and appeals before the Ninth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court challenging the use of cy pres in privacy class action settlements.
- LinkedIn in putative class actions challenging the importation of contacts from members’ external email accounts and use of members’ names and profile pictures to grow LinkedIn’s member base as violating California’s right of publicity and unfair competition law, as well as the Wiretap Act and Stored Communications Act.
- ESPN and Disney in putative class actions challenging digital streaming media services under the Video Privacy Protection Act.
- HTC in multidistrict litigation involving nearly 70 putative class actions challenging the installation and use of data collection software on mobile devices as violating the Wiretap Act, Stored Communications Act, and federal and state consumer protection laws; numerous putative class actions involving the Google Phone and EVO 4G smartphones, asserting unfair competition, false advertising and warranty claims.
- Verizon in a putative class action involving third-party billing services, asserting RICO and unfair competition claims.
- Microsoft in numerous putative class actions involving gaming consoles, software, and cloud services.
Capabilities
- Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation
- Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
- Class Actions
- Fashion, Retail, and Consumer Products
- Litigation
- Tech and Innovation
- Technology Litigation
Credentials
Education:
- University of California - Berkeley - 2001 Juris Doctor
- University of California - Davis - 1995 Bachelor of Arts
- University of California - Davis - 1995 Bachelor of Science
Admissions:
- California Bar
Clerkships:
- US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, Hon. Richard A. Paez, 2001 - 2002