Jay Ettinger

Jay Ettinger

Senior Associate Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment

Los Angeles

+1 310 785 4752

jay.ettinger@hoganlovells.com

Jay Ettinger

Overview
Experience
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Jay advises businesses as they navigate the complexities of technology-related litigation, with a particular focus on privacy and cybersecurity class actions in California courts. He goes the extra mile to develop innovative strategies and arguments to defend against novel privacy claim theories. Having tried cases in both state and federal court, Jay aims to position his clients for success at all stages of litigation.

Jay is also a passionate advocate for human rights and advancing racial justice. Jay’s pro bono practice focuses on advocating for criminal justice equity, civil and voting rights, and tenants’ rights. His work has included partnering with the ACLU and NAACP LDF in defending Black Alabamians’ fundamental right to vote, defending immigrant tenants’ rights through housing-related litigation, and challenging the constitutionality of Texas’s use of prolonged solitary confinement for death row inmates.

While attending law school, Jay served as a research assistant to a U.N. special rapporteur; was a Human Rights Fellow working at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; was a Human Rights extern for a global food corporation; and worked as a legal extern for the State Department, Office of the Legal Adviser – Office of Human Rights and Refugees.

Representative experience

Successfully challenged Alabama's congressional redistricting map as violative of the Voting Rights Act before a three-judge panel and again before the Supreme Court in Allen v. Milligan.

Argued and won a motion to dismiss under the doctrine of forum non conveniens in Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) class action filed in Norther District of California.

Successfully tried a civil healthcare fraud action on behalf of Fortune 10 healthcare insurance company in the Central District of California, recovering full compensatory damages.

Drafted successful demurrer of novel California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) pen register claim on behalf of nationwide retailer for its alleged use of pixel technologies on its website.

Led drafting and research for an opposition to class certification on behalf of a major health insurance company on an accelerated timeline in multidistrict data breach litigation.

Discovered uncited Mississippi statute guaranteeing right to bail for pro bono client Curtis Flowers after +20 years of wrongful imprisonment without a conviction.

Successfully moved to compel arbitration in privacy class action filed in the Southern District of California for a leading health insurance company.

Litigating a class action challenging Texas’s use of indefinite solitary confinement for death-row inmates as violating the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Credentials

Education

Juris Doctor, University of Minnesota Law School, magna cum laude; Order of the Coif, 2021
Bachelor of Science, University of Southern California, 2015

Bar admissions and qualifications