Sonja Arndt-Johnson is a Special Counsel in the Firm’s San Francisco office and a member of the Litigation (White Collar) practice group. Mrs. Arndt-Johnson has spent the past three years in private practice, originally joining private practice from the U.S. Department of Justice (U.S. DOJ) in Washington, D.C. While at the U.S. DOJ, Mr. Arndt-Johnson worked at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, the Office of International Affairs (OIA), and the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Properly Section (CCIPS).
Mrs. Arndt-Johnson has extensive experience handling complex litigation matters, running internal investigations, mediating with private and government entities (i.e., DOJ, SEC, IRS, FTC, DOD, and OII with the IMF), managing public relations, and handling all phases of a case at both the state and federal levels, including having brought a dozen trials to verdict. Mrs. Arndt-Johnson also has extensive experience working with small and large corporations on their data privacy policies and data breach response, including having completed a secondment at a Fortune 500 company.
Mrs. Arndt-Johnson’s client representations include but are not limited to combating fraud, money laundering, criminal RICO, CPRA/CCPA, BIPA, and wiretap allegations, investigating and bringing forth civil RICO claims, defending against extradition requests, managing internal corporate investigations, liaising with the Department of Defense regarding business and product classifications, among others. Mrs. Arndt-Johnson also has experience drafting complex multi-jurisdictional privacy policies, terms of use and service agreements, DMCA policies, and prohibited content policies for starts-ups, small to mid-size corporations, and Fortune 500 companies.