Elizabeth B. Herrington
Elizabeth ("Beth") Herrington is a seasoned first-chair trial lawyer and strategic advisor who represents many of the world's leading technology companies in their most significant litigation, investigations, and enterprise-risk matters. Beth assists companies with complex legal questions stemming from innovation—whether involving AI, privacy, cybersecurity, digital platforms, cloud computing, biometric technologies, or other emerging technologies. Combining substantial trial experience with practical business judgment, Beth helps clients navigate legal risk from product development and governance through trial, appeal, and precedent-setting decisions.
Beth has built a national practice at the intersection of technology, business, and litigation. She represents large industry clients such as Microsoft, Expedia, and Snap in complex commercial litigation, nationwide class actions, AI-related disputes, privacy and cybersecurity matters, trade secret litigation, False Claims Act matters, regulatory investigations, and appeals. General counsel and executive leadership teams rely on her to develop litigation strategies that protect not only legal positions, but also business objectives, customer relationships, and corporate reputation.
Beth has successfully represented clients before juries, judges, arbitrators, and appellate courts across the United States. She is one of the few lawyers in the country who has tried two certified class actions. Her recent experience also includes obtaining a complete defense victory in a recent $50 million arbitration, securing precedent-setting dispositive rulings, coordinating nationwide litigation strategies, and handling appeals involving issues of first impression. She is known for translating highly technical concepts into persuasive courtroom advocacy and for helping clients resolve complex disputes efficiently while remaining prepared to take cases through trial when necessary.
Beth has also helped shape the law governing emerging technologies. She secured one of the earliest defense summary judgment victories under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, has represented large technology companies in significant biometric privacy litigation, and is among the few lawyers to have tried a biometric privacy case to a jury.
Increasingly, clients engage Beth well before disputes arise. She advises boards of directors, executive leadership, and in-house legal departments on AI governance, privacy-by-design, cybersecurity preparedness, product launches, enterprise risk, litigation readiness, and evolving regulatory expectations.
Beth leads Morgan Lewis’s Chicago litigation practice, serves on the firm's Advisory Board and its principal management committees, co-leads the technology industry team, and helps lead the firm's AI Strategic Counseling and AI Client Solutions initiatives. She works across practices to develop integrated strategies that address litigation, regulatory, and commercial considerations.
Beth has been recognized as Band 1 Chambers USA, The Legal 500 United States, Lawdragon, the National Law Journal, Illinois Super Lawyers, and Crain's Chicago Business for excellence in complex litigation and technology-related disputes. She is a past president of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association and is a frequent speaker and author on AI, privacy, cybersecurity, and technology litigation.
