Wilson Sonsini Recruits Akin Gump’s Leader for Litigation Work

Sept. 28, 2021, 7:02 PM UTC

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati hired Susan Kay Leader as a litigation partner in Los Angeles as the firm focuses on adding lawyers with trial experience.

Leader, who joins the firm from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, has litigated commercial cases and class-action lawsuits. She has first-chair experience in more than a dozen trials and arbitrations, according to a Wilson Sonsini statement.

Her previous clients include Alta Investment Group and DirecTV, which she defended in a slew of recent wage and hour cases, according to a review of the Bloomberg Law docket database.

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