Angela Dunning

Angela Dunning is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP based in its Silicon Valley office.  Angela has over 23 years of experience litigating copyright, trademark, trade secrets, right of publicity, and unfair competition/false advertising cases, as well as other complex commercial disputes, for major global companies. She has tried numerous cases to a jury verdict and has substantial experience in the federal appellate courts, including successful arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in precedent-setting IP cases such as Elliott v. Google, Naruto v. Slater (the “Monkey Selfie” copyright case), and Close v. Sotheby’s.  Angela is also a leader in the bar with respect to generative artificial intelligence.  She regularly speaks on issues of AI and copyright and is currently defending leading developers of AI art and large language models against putative copyright class actions challenging the development, training, and output of those models.  In 2008, Angela served as an assistant district attorney for the City and County of San Francisco under then-District Attorney Kamala Harris.  She teaches IP courses at UC Berkeley School of Law.