Angel Garganta
Partner & Co-Chair, Class Action Defense Group, at Venable, LLP
- Role
- Partner at Venable LLP
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Angel Garganta
Maintaining a national practice with San Francisco roots, Angel Garganta is a partner in Venable’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group and Co-Chair of the Class Action Defense Group. A nationally recognized authority on food, beverage, and supplement litigation, and consumer protection laws, Mr. Garganta’s practice has a strong focus on advertising law. He is a member of the American Law Institute, is ranked nationally by Chambers USA in the Advertising Litigation and Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation categories, is AV Preeminent ® Rated by Martindale-Hubbell, and has also been repeatedly recognized in Best Lawyers in America, Legal 500, and Super Lawyers. Mr. Garganta represents a variety of businesses, including manufacturers and retailers nationally and internationally in a broad range of unfair business practice/consumer class actions and complex commercial disputes. He uses his experience to achieve cost-effective and efficient results on behalf of his clients through early and strategic use of motions to dispose of cases or to position them for favorable settlements. Mr. Garganta clerked for the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California. He has served as Co-Chair of the Lawyer Representative Committee for the Northern District of California, President of the San Francisco Bank Attorneys Association, on the Board of Directors of the Bar Association of San Francisco, on the Executive Committee of its Litigation Section, and on the Editorial Advisory Board of California Forms of Pleading and Practice (Matthew Bender, ed.). Specialties: Complex commercial litigation, including class action defense. Consumer protection and false advertising law.
Experience
Partner
Feb 2014 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Education
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
JD
1989 — 1992
University of California, Berkeley
MA, History
1984 — 1987
Princeton University
AB, magna cum laude, Anthropology
1980 — 1984
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