Rebecca Kopplin is an associate in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Litigation and Trial Department.

Rebecca is an experienced litigator and advisor. She represents clients strategically in complex and high-stakes litigation. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation.

Prior to joining Latham, Rebecca litigated complex defensive cases on behalf of the United States at the Department of Justice’s Civil Division. At the Civil Division, she led and argued cases spanning a wide variety of consequential litigation areas, including class actions, healthcare, financial services, national security, constitutional law, and privacy. She received multiple Civil Division awards for her work on multidistrict challenges to significant federal policies.

Rebecca’s experience includes:

  • Securing a dismissal for the Department of Energy in a case challenging the storage of nuclear material*
  • Securing a dismissal for the Department of Health and Human Services in a challenge to Medicare’s home healthcare program*
  • Defending the Department of Agriculture’s administration of farm loans*
  • Defending the Space Force’s launch operations*
  • Defending the Department of Justice in numerous Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act lawsuits*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • California

Education

  • JD, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, 2016
    summa cum laude
  • BS in Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2011
    summa cum laude

Languages Spoken

  • English