Hope Brinn

Biography

Hope Brinn is an Associate in the San Francisco office and practices in the Firm’s Antitrust group. Hope represents direct purchasers in a variety of industries. She is a core part of the team litigating Henry v. Brown University (N.D. Ill.), a case alleging that seventeen elite universities colluded to artificially depress financial aid in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. Hope and the team have thus far recovered $284 million on behalf of working- and middle-class financial aid recipients. Her other matters include Estuary Transit District v. Hartford Healthcare Corporation (D. Conn.), Choh v. Brown University (D. Conn.), and Simon & Simon v. Align Technology (N.D. Cal.). 

Prior to starting at the Firm, Hope clerked for the Honorable Janet Bond Arterton in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Hope is a graduate of Swarthmore College, where she was a Lang Opportunity Scholar and Truman Scholar, and the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a Darrow Scholar. While at Michigan, she co-founded the Sexual Assault and Harassment Legal Advocacy Service, a group that trains and provides legal advocates in campus judicial proceedings to students who experienced sexual misconduct and was a co-president of the Disability Rights Organization. Hope was a Senior Editor for the Michigan Law Review, where she published a note on the intersection of qui tam laws and the Federal Arbitration Act, and the Executive Notes Editor for the Michigan Journal of Race & the Law.

Hope is admitted to practice in California.