Lauren Dansey is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department, focusing on antitrust, class actions, law firm defense and other complex civil litigation.
Lauren has a wide range of experience in several areas of law implicating different industries, legal issues, and factual scenarios. Her specialty is managing complex discovery and assisting as trial counsel. She has played a leading role in all stages of litigation and has been a key team member in multiple trials and final hearings. Lauren regularly represents high-profile clients in the tech industry in a variety of lawsuits and government inquiries on a wide range of issues. She has also represented Am 100 firms in legal malpractice suits.
Recent representative matters include:
- Represented a professional sports league in a high-profile antitrust lawsuit in the Northern District of California.
- Represented a leading technology company in high-profile antitrust lawsuit in a three-week bench trial in the Northern District of California in 2021 only nine months after filing. Lead member of discovery team that handled complex e-discovery issues and key member of trial team. Currently representing the company in a related class action.
- Represented a technology company in responding to various global antitrust investigations, class actions, individual civil suits and criminal complaints.
- Represented a quick-service restaurant that won denial of class certification a quick-service restaurant and defeated class certification in a first-of-its-kind action challenging “no poach” agreements under the federal antitrust laws
- Represented a law firm against claims of professional negligence. Lead associate on defensive discovery efforts, including all responses, document productions, and meet and confers, and managing multiple fact witness and expert workstreams.
- Represented an executive of a Fortune 500 company in a two-week SEC enforcement hearing.
- Represented a hospital in a two-week civil jury trial in the Northern District of California and successfully defended the jury’s determination in a Ninth Circuit Appeal.
Lauren also maintains an active pro bono practice, including the following matters:
- Represented Mr. Jones and was one of the lead associates in the firm’s historic jury trial victory over the LAPD in Jones v. City of Los Angeles, in which a federal jury awarded $375,000 in compensatory and punitive damages to Mr. Jones.
- Represents a homeowner against a receiver and the City of Berkeley regarding the scope and costs of mismanaged repair work.
- Represents a young woman from Guatemala in removal proceedings, including appearances in state court regarding Special Immigrant Juvenile Status findings. Lauren received the 2022 Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) Pro Bono award for her work on the matter.
Lauren received her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School in 2016, where she was the Associate Editor of the Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law, as well as the Michigan Journal of Race & Law. While in law school, Lauren was also a member of the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic and site leader for the Public Benefits Advocacy Project.
She earned her B.A. in Political Science from University of California, Berkeley in 2011. She wrote her senior thesis on Asian economic regionalism. Prior to joining the firm, Lauren taught high school special education in Richmond, California through Teach for America.
Lauren currently serves as the vice chair of the firm’s global Associates Committee.
Lauren is admitted to practice law in the State of California.
Capabilities
- Litigation
- Antitrust and Competition
- Class Actions
- Crisis Management
- Law Firm Defense
- Trials
- White Collar Defense and Investigations
Credentials
Education:
- University of Michigan - 2016 Juris Doctor
- University of California - Berkeley - 2011 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- California Bar