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Amy Gordon is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Mass Torts & Product Liability, Privacy & Cybersecurity and White Collar Defense & Investigations groups. Her practice encompasses a range of complex civil and commercial litigation matters across a range of industries, including financial services, consumer products and telecommunications. Amy has also advised clients across industries on economic sanctions and asset forfeiture related issues.

Amy has experience with various stages of litigation, including taking and defending depositions, briefing dispositive and discovery motions, coordinating discovery and preparing witnesses for depositions and trial.

Amy maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing clients in litigation to improve housing conditions. In addition, she undertook a five-month secondment while at the Firm, where she worked for the City of New York in the General Litigation Unit.

Amy earned her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, where she was a Cybersecurity Graduate Fellow and served as Chief Notes Editor for The Review of Litigation. During law school, Amy interned for the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

  • Central District of California dismisses lawsuit alleging that a third-party’s interception of communications over a website’s live chat feature violated California’s wiretapping and eavesdropping prohibitions.  
  • Important to the Court’s holding was its finding that the code used by the third party to acquire and transmit the contents of the chat communications was not necessarily used to intercept the communications while they were “in transit” but rather to store them after they were received.

On January 1, 2021, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 to “better enable critical national security, intelligence, and law enforcement efforts to counter money laundering, the financing of terrorism, and other illicit activity.” FinCEN issued the final rule on Beneficial Ownership

Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California recently dismissed a putative class action lawsuit in which plaintiffs claimed they faced an imminent threat of future of harm in the form of identity theft and fraud because their personal information, specifically their driver’s license numbers, may have been compromised

The FTC indicated that it will use its rulemaking authority under the FTC Act’s Section 18 to create a new rule that will likely seek to rein in broad data collection and use.

In October 2021, FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter made two speeches in which she expressed a desire to move beyond the FTC’s “notice-and-consent” framework to address broader surveillance practices that underlie the digital advertising economy, specifically by applying “bright-line purpose and use restrictions that minimize the data that can be collected and how it can be deployed.”