Prominent Tech Litigator Sunita Bali Joins Arnold & Porter in San Francisco, Continuing West Coast Expansion
SAN FRANCISCO, July 7, 2026 — Arnold & Porter announced today that Sunita Bali has joined the firm’s Complex Litigation practice as a partner. Sunita will be resident in the firm’s San Francisco office. Her arrival builds on the firm’s ongoing West Coast strategic growth and follows several other additions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle this year.
Ken Chernof, co-chair of Arnold & Porter’s Complex Litigation group, said: “Sunita is an exceptional litigator whose command of privacy law, consumer class actions, and content moderation disputes makes her an outstanding addition to our technology industry practice. She brings sophisticated experience in some of the most consequential areas of technology litigation, and we are delighted to welcome her.”
Jonathan Hughes, head of Arnold & Porter’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices, added: “Sunita’s arrival not only continues to further strengthen our West Coast litigation platform, but her depth in privacy and technology litigation and her track record of success will be a tremendous asset to our clients and team across the U.S.”
A seasoned commercial litigator, Sunita represents technology, retail, and other clients in complex privacy, consumer class-action, and other commercial litigation disputes. She advises clients on compliance with privacy and consumer protection laws, particularly those that regulate the collection and use of biometric and other sensitive data. Sunita regularly defends large, high-stakes privacy and consumer class-action cases brought under the federal Wiretap Act, the Stored Communications Act, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, and California’s consumer protection laws. She also has well over a decade of experience litigating and advising clients on content moderation issues and has represented some of the world’s largest companies in high-profile cases implicating Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the First Amendment.
In joining the firm, Sunita said: “Some of today’s most consequential legal battles in the technology sector involve the application of complex privacy and consumer protection laws to novel and developing technologies. Arnold & Porter’s multidisciplinary platform, deep bench of practitioners, and global reputation make it an ideal fit for my practice.”
Sunita earned her J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and her B.A. from Occidental College.
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