2024-2025 Global AI Trends Guide
Jay Ettinger
Associate Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Jay strives to provide strategic client-centric solutions to businesses and organizations as they navigate the complexities of technology-related litigation, with a particular focus on privacy and cybersecurity class actions. He goes the extra mile to uncover innovative approaches and arguments to defend against novel and emerging privacy claim theories. Having tried cases in both state and federal court, Jay aims to position his clients for success at all stages of litigation.
Jay is also a passionate advocate for human rights. Jay’s pro bono practice focuses on advocating for criminal justice equity, and civil and voting rights. His work has included partnering with the ACLU and NAACP LDF in defending Black Alabamians’ fundamental right to vote, defending immigrant tenants’ rights through housing-related litigation, and challenging the constitutionality of Texas’s use of prolonged solitary confinement for death row inmates.
While attending law school, Jay served as a research assistant to a U.N. special rapporteur; was a Human Rights Fellow working at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; was a Human Rights extern for a global food corporation; and worked as a legal extern for the State Department, Office of the Legal Adviser – Office of Human Rights and Refugees.
Representative experience
Supported a succesfull challenge to Alabama's redistricting map as violative of the Voting Rights Act before a three-judge panel and again before the Supreme Court in Allen v. Milligan.
Argued and won a motion to dismiss in a privacy class action filed in the Northern District of California brought against Swiss-based organization under the doctrine of forum non conveniens.
Successfully moved to compel arbitration in privacy class action filed in the Norther District of California for a leading entertainment and multi-media conglomerate.
Won a motion to dismiss in the Central District of California for a leading technology company.
Represented Fortune 10 healthcare insurance company in federal civil healthcare fraud action. Obtained successful trial verdict as member of trial team, recovering full compensatory damages.
Supporting a multidistrict litigation response on behalf of diagnostic company related to a vendor breach affecting more than ten million people.
Credentials
Education
- Juris Doctor, University of Minnesota Law School, magna cum laude; Order of the Coif, 2021
- Bachelor of Science, University of Southern California, 2015
Bar admissions and qualifications
- California
Court admissions
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California