Amanda Bonn is a partner with Susman Godfrey and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Bonn handles some of the most groundbreaking and newsworthy litigation in California and across the country. Bonn has been recognized among the 500 Leading Litigators and 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers nationwide by Lawdragon.
Bonn’s unique ability to master diverse subject matters has allowed her to successfully represent both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of practice areas including antitrust, appellate, class action, employment, intellectual property, privacy, qui tam, and securities litigation. Bonn’s versatility is evident in her wide-ranging practice in cases with hundreds of millions or billions of dollars at stake.
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Bonn takes on formidable opponents in cases that are shaping the future of business and industry.
For example, she serves as co-lead counsel in two groundbreaking putative class actions challenging Google’s unlawful collection of consumers’ Internet browsing and app activity.
In the first case—which challenges Google’s collection of private Internet browsing data even when users are in “Incognito” mode—Bonn recently received nationwide press for her oral argument opposing Google’s motion to dismiss. Following Bonn’s successful argument, the Court rejected Google’s motion in its entirety, allowing this pioneering case to proceed.
The second case challenges Google’s collection of users’ “Web & App Activity,” even after users expressly denied Google permission to do so. Once again, Bonn successfully argued against Google’s motion to dismiss the case – resulting in a Court order keeping the plaintiffs’ claims alive.
While Bonn frequently represents plaintiffs, she is equally adept at defending parties on the other side of the “v.” Before the same Court in which she represents plaintiffs with privacy claims, Bonn simultaneously leads the defense of the world’s leading commodity trading firm, Vitol Inc., in an antitrust case alleging a conspiracy to inflate California gasoline prices over a two-year period.
In another newsworthy matter, Bonn was tapped to defend Flutter Entertainment in a multi-billion-dollar dispute with Fox Sports concerning an option to purchase a stake in the leading U.S. sports betting firm FanDuel Group.