Bio
Adya Baker is a seasoned litigator who represents companies in complex disputes involving privacy, technology, consumer protection, and commercial matters. She defends clients in class actions, high-stakes commercial disputes and arbitrations, and government investigations in federal and state courts and arbitral forums across the country. Adya works with clients across a variety of industries, including software and technology, entertainment, online privacy and security, sports, insurance, manufacturing, and healthcare.
A significant part of Adya’s practice focuses on defending companies in privacy and consumer class actions under a wide range of federal and state statutes. Her experience includes litigation involving the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), federal and state wiretapping laws such as the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and Stored Communications Act (SCA), Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state accessibility laws, state automatic-renewal laws, unfair and deceptive trade practice statutes, and constitutional and common-law privacy claims.
She regularly develops and executes defense strategies for individual and coordinated multi-jurisdictional class actions, including matters involving novel theories of liability and significant potential exposure. Her experience spans all stages of litigation, including dispositive motions, complex discovery, class certification, settlement and mediation, trial, and appeal.
Adya also handles high-stakes commercial disputes and arbitrations, including matters involving emerging industries and unsettled areas of law. She has significant experience developing case strategy, managing complex discovery, taking and defending depositions, examining and cross-examining witnesses, and litigating matters through evidentiary hearings. Her commercial litigation practice includes contractual disputes and matters involving emerging legal and regulatory issues, including those at the intersection of name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) rights, athlete-agent laws, and professional sports.
Adya maintains an active pro bono practice focused on representing survivors of domestic violence and co-chairs ZwillGen’s Pro Bono Committee. She has represented clients in civil protection order, guardian ad litem, custody, divorce, defamation, and other civil matters. Her pro bono experience includes serving as lead counsel, briefing and arguing dispositive motions, and securing dismissal with prejudice for clients facing significant civil claims.
Prior to joining ZwillGen, Adya was a litigation associate at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in Washington, D.C., and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in New York.
