Jennifer J. Rho is an of counsel resident in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and Intellectual Property Group, where she focuses on intellectual property, antitrust, and other complex litigation matters with a high tech focus. Rho has successfully represented leading companies in consumer electronics, communications, biotechnology, medical device, video game, and social networking technologies, among others, in federal courts across the United States. She has significant experience litigating patent infringement and trade secrets issues in the U.S. International Trade Commission, for areas of technology including semiconductors, consumer electronics, and biologic products.

Rho has been named a “Rising Star” in the Managing IP Handbook and selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America. In 2018, she was recognized by The Recorder as a Next Generation Women Leader in Tech Law. Rho is presently on the Executive Board of the Judge Paul R. Michel Intellectual Property American Inn of Court. She also is involved in ChIPs and Girls Who Code, where she participates in efforts to increase diversity in STEM and intellectual property fields.

Rho received her JD from the University of Chicago Law School in 2007. During law school, she was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review and the Chicago Journal of International Law. She graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Economy of Industrial Societies.