Dena is a partner at Girard Sharp, where she has been lead or co-lead plaintiff’s counsel in numerous national high-profile complex-litigation cases, including the Xyrem, Lidoderm, and Restasis antitrust litigations and the Juul MDL. She serves as the current co-chair of the Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference for the Northern District of California and coauthored the third edition of the widely-cited Sedona Principles: Best Practices and Principles for Electronic Document Production. A graduate, cum laude, of UC Law SF, Dena was named one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in 2021 and has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer or Rising Star every year since 2009.
