Viola Trebicka

About Viola Trebicka

Viola Trebicka is the litigator clients call when the stakes are high, and failure is not an option. She is creative, persistent, and relentlessly focused on getting the best possible outcome, no matter how complex or uphill the fight. A partner in the firm’s Los Angeles and New York offices, Viola has a national litigation and trial practice, with a particular focus on high-stakes commercial and technology matters. She has successfully defended Fortune 100 companies in some of their most sensitive and high-profile disputes and is especially experienced in cases involving data privacy, consumer protection, and class action litigation.Viola also serves as co-chair of the firm\'s Data Privacy and Security Practice. Her extensive experience spans defeating privacy claims, opposing class certification, managing mass arbitrations, handling data breach remediation and litigation/settlement, and resolving complex data and intellectual property cases through discovery and trial. She has delivered major wins for clients, including, most recently, a complete class certification denial in Calhoun v. Google. Other noteworthy successes include securing summary judgment in a significant Chrome user data privacy case against Google, defeating a Rule 23(b)(3) class certification in a high-stakes private browsing user data privacy case against Google, achieving a motion to dismiss victory on behalf of Kaseya in a data breach liability action, and attaining a complete defense verdict in a patent trial for Novatel and Verizon.In recognition of her experience and victories, Viola was recognized in the Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers and ranked by Legal 500 USA in the Data Privacy and Data Protection field (Media, Technology, and Telecoms) in 2023, 2024, and 2025, and won the 2024 California Legal Awards in the category “Women Leaders in Tech Law.” My extensive experience spans defeating privacy claims, opposing class certification, managing mass arbitrations, handling data breach remediation and litigation/settlement, and efficiently steering complex data and intellectual property cases through discovery and trial. If you seek effective legal counsel in the ever-evolving landscape of data disputes, connect with me via email at v••••••••@quinnemanuel.com or by calling

Experience

1. Partner

   Quinn Emanuel

   Jan 2019 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Viola Trebicka is a partner in Quinn Emanuel’s Los Angeles office. Prior to joining the firm in 2010, she practiced law at a major New York law firm. Ms. Trebicka maintains a diverse complex commercial litigation and trial practice, with particular emphasis on intellectual property disputes, antitrust litigation, and class actions. She represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of state and federal jurisdictions across the country. Ms. Trebicka is admitted to practice in California and New York. Since 2014, Ms. Trebicka has been consistently named a Southern California “Rising Star” by the Super Lawyer Magazine, an honor afforded to fewer than 2.5% of the best attorneys under 40 years old practicing in Southern California. In 2017, Ms. Trebicka was also selected as one of the “Top 50 Up-And-Coming Women Attorneys In Southern California” by the Super Lawyer Magazine.

Education

• Yale Law School

  JD

  2004 — 2007

• University of Richmond

  BA, Rhetoric, Political Science, Economics

  2000 — 2004

• HB Woodlawn Secondary Program

  High School

  1999 — 2000