David Rudolph is an experienced litigator and privacy law specialist. He is a partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, and a member of the firm’s Cybersecurity and Data Privacy and Antitrust and Intellectual Property practice groups. Professor Rudolph has extensive experience litigating core technical and legal issues in privacy cases, and his active privacy practice encompasses cutting-edge issues related to cybersecurity, Big Data, and European privacy law. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US), and has presented on panels related to current issues in privacy and cybersecurity law.
Professor Rudolph is also an experienced antitrust and intellectual property litigator. He has represented plaintiffs in significant pharmaceutical antitrust litigation, and was awarded “Outstanding Private Practice Antitrust Achievement” by the American Antitrust Institute in 2017, and again in 2020, for this work. Prior to joining Lieff Cabraser, Professor Rudolph litigated patent and copyright infringement cases at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, and also served as a law clerk for the Hon. Saundra Brown Armstrong, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. He received his B.A. in philosophy and J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and spent several years studying philosophy in the Ph.D. program at Rutgers University before turning to law.
