SPEAKER

Ruben Gonzalez embraces disruptive innovation in the legal world as an opportunity to optimize services, create new solutions and benefit clients, both as a litigator and as director of Faegre Drinker’s Design Lab. Ruben has more than 15 years of client-focused, results-oriented performance through his time in management consulting and legal service. Ruben is known for thinking outside the box and challenging the status quo. He proudly pursues uncertainty and meets complexity with a tireless work ethic. Ruben understands that the world is rapidly changing. To keep up, attorneys have to change too. 

Ruben represents Fortune 500 industrial product manufacturers, medical device manufacturers, and global food and nutrition companies in product liability, complex injury litigation and commercial litigation in courts nationwide. In addition to product liability, complex injury litigation and commercial litigation, Ruben is a go-to counselor and advisor on new product risk assessments, from counseling clients through key early-stage product developments through litigation. Ruben also leverages his 10 years of experience in Washington, D.C. by preparing senior executives to testify before the United States Congress. He also collaborates with clients and colleagues on internal investigations, employment litigation, real estate litigation and construction litigation, and enjoys anticipating client needs and counseling clients prior to litigation.