Vanessa Ing litigates complex commercial cases involving contractual disputes, business torts, government investigations, and class actions. 

She has represented a broad range of clients, including startups, large technology companies, nonprofits, and individuals. She is particularly skilled at research and analysis, and she applies this skill to carefully evaluate her clients’ legal risks, defenses, and claims.

Vanessa has practiced before both federal and state courts. She has experience preparing for trial, defending and taking depositions, managing all stages of fact and expert discovery, drafting pleadings and dispositive motions, engaging in settlement negotiations, and interviewing and preparing witnesses for testimony.

Vanessa maintains an active and varied pro bono practice, which includes representing an asylum seeker, defending an indigent client in a partition action, and challenging the adequacy of a city’s Housing Element.

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.