Susan Fahringer litigates complex, cutting-edge cases with a focus on consumer privacy and related issues, including claims centering on consumer data, biometrics, and artificial intelligence (AI). Susan has extensive experience in the defense of privacy class actions and has served as lead counsel defending against class action claims under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA), unfair competition laws, and other privacy and commercial claims. Susan also has many years of experience representing companies in business litigation, including in connection with significant contract and business tort claims.
Susan represents clients at all stages of development, from emerging companies to Fortune 10 companies, across a broad array of industry sectors. Her 30 years of litigation experience inform her approach to litigation, which is strategic, pragmatic, and centers on her clients’ business needs. Susan also draws on that knowledge to advise clients that are faced with significant legal and business challenges on how to reduce business and litigation risks, particularly in connection with consumer privacy and related claims.
Susan co-leads the firm’s Biometric Law and Privacy Class Action Defense groups. She has served on the firm’s Management and Executive Committees and as co-chair of the firm's Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Robotics practice and its Intellectual Property Litigation group.
Ranked by Chambers USA 2023
Litigation: General Commercial
Professional Recognition
- Listed in Chambers USA as “America’s Leading Lawyer” in Litigation: General Commercial, 2023
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America: Commercial Litigation; Litigation - Intellectual Property; Litigation - Patent, 2010 – 2024
- Listed in Super Lawyers Magazine, "Washington’s Super Lawyers," 2003 – 2023
- Listed in Super Lawyers Magazine, "Rising Star," 2001 – 2003
- Listed in Washington Law & Politics, "Top 50 Washington Female Super Lawyers"
- Listed in Washington Law & Politics, "Rising Stars," 1999
- Peer Review Rated AV in Martindale-Hubbell
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