Biography
Vanessa Ing represents clients in a wide range of complex litigation involving business torts, government investigations, shareholder disputes, class actions, consumer products, copyright and trademark issues, and employment matters.
Vanessa has practiced before both federal and state courts. She has experience defending and taking depositions, managing all stages of fact and expert discovery, drafting pleadings and dispositive motions, engaging in settlement negotiations, interviewing and preparing witnesses for testimony, and conducting legal research.
Vanessa maintains an active pro bono practice, which includes counseling low-income and immigrant AAPI survivors of violence.
Prior to joining Farella, Vanessa clerked for the Honorable Virginia K. DeMarchi of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She also served as a staff attorney at the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Enforcement in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. During law school, she externed for the Honorable Edward M. Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Civil Rights Committee Co-Chair, Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area
- Member, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area