Quyen L. Ta
Bio
Ms. Ta serves as lead counsel in numerous consumer class action matters in state and federal courts. She regularly handles litigation involving statutes as varied as California’s Business & Professions Code Sections 17200 and 17500, Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA) and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Ms. Ta has defeated billions of dollars in consumer claims through favorable settlements, dispositive and class decertification motions, and many other strategies.
Her practice also includes advising on complex business and civil disputes before U.S. state and federal courts, as well as domestic and international arbitral tribunals, on behalf of clients in the energy, financial services, life sciences and health care, manufacturing, technology and other sectors.
Ms. Ta has achieved trial victories and successful settlements in intellectual property, trade secrets and employment mobility cases related to semiconductor, integrated circuit, microlending and mobile device technology. She also has obtained defense verdicts and secured other resolutions in matters involving significant claims of breaches of contract and confidentiality and alleged violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute.
She is chair of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Bay Area Judicial Advisory Selection Committee.
Ms. Ta has been named a Top 100 Lawyer, a Top Woman Lawyer and a Top Trade Secrets Lawyer in California by the Daily Journal. She was also recognized as a Woman Leader in Tech Law for Litigation as well as a California Trailblazer by The Recorder, and a Lawdragon Leading 500 Lawyer in America. In 2023, she received the Dale Minami Impact Award from the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, the Vanguard Award from the Alliance for Asian American Justice and the Judge Learned Hand Award from the American Jewish Committee of San Francisco. In addition, in 2021, Ms. Ta was honored with the Thought Leadership Award at Corporate Counsel’s Women, Influence & Power in Law conference.
Credentials
Education
- J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2003
- B.A., University of California, Los Angeles (highest honors, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude)
Admissions
- California
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- U.S. District Courts for the Central, Eastern and Northern Districts of California
Associations
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus: Board Member and 40th Anniversary Co-Chair, 2008-12; Leadership Council Co-Chair, 2012-Present
- Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Silicon Valley, Judiciary Committee: Co-Chair, 2013-Present
- Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Northern California: Board Member, Program Chair, 2019-Present
- Bay Area Judicial Advisory Selection Committee: Chair, 2019-Present
- Legal Aid at Work: Board Member, 2019-Present
- Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California (VABANC) and VABANC Law Foundation: President, 2010; Board Member, 2006-Present
- Bar Association of San Francisco, Barristers Club: Diversity Director, 2010; Board Member, 2010-11
- Bar Association of San Francisco: Board Member and Minority Bar Coalition Representative, 2011-12; Equality Committee Co-Chair, 2012-15; Board Member, 2013-16
- Berkeley Law First Generation Professionals Institute: Co-Founder
- Berkeley Law School Alumni Association: Board Member
- Berkeley Law School Committee on the Use of the Boalt Name: Member
- California State Bar Committee on Federal Courts: Member, 2012-15
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA): Northern California Regional Governor, 2012-14
- Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference: Lawyer Representative of the Northern District of California, 2013-16 (Co-Chair, 2016)
- Northern District of California, Magistrate Merit Selection Committee: Member, 2019
Languages
- Vietnamese
Experience
- Law Clerk, Hon. Lawrence K. Karlton, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California