Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

About this office:

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is a leading international law firm. Consistently ranking among the world's top law firms in industry surveys and major publications, Gibson Dunn is distinctively positioned in today's global marketplace with 1000 lawyers and 16 offices in major cities throughout the United States and Europe. Committed to providing the highest quality legal services to its clients. Gibson Dunn's representative clients include some of the world's largest multinational corporations in all major industries, leading government entities, commercial and investment banks, start-up ventures, emerging growth businesses, partnerships and individuals.

The American Lawyer has named Gibson Dunn the 2010 Litigation Department of the Year. In awarding this honor, the magazine dubbed Gibson Dunn's litigators the "Game Changers," adding, "when other firms and conventional strategies come up short, clients in deep trouble turn to Gibson Dunn for fresh, aggressive thinking and innovative rescues."

Irvine, California Office Profile: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Orange County office was established in 1964. While many of our clients are national and international public and private companies, we also service individuals and emerging entrepreneurial companies. Our practice areas include corporate transactions, litigation, intellectual property, labor and employment, bankruptcy, all areas of business taxation, tax audits and litigation, estate planning, real estate and environmental and natural resources.

We draw upon the talents of our Orange County attorneys and couple that with our close interaction with other Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher attorneys around the world to offer our clients the greatest breadth of legal services. Our Orange County office is also a recognized leader in terms of utilizing technology to deliver legal services. The firm provides the opportunity for complete e-mail connectivity with clients and other unique services including on-site temporary legal staffing to selected clients and total legal function outsourcing, including legal management.

Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice; Antitrust and Trade Regulation; Appellate and Constitutional Law; Business Restructuring and Reorganization; Capital Markets; Class Actions; Corporate Governance; Corporate Transactions; Crisis Management; Electronic Discovery and Information Law; Emerging Technologies; Energy and Infrastructure; Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort; Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits; Financial Institutions; Global Finance; Government and Commercial Contracts; Health Care and Life Sciences ; Insurance and Reinsurance ; Intellectual Property; International Arbitration; International Trade Regulation and Compliance; Investment Funds; Labor and Employment; Latin America ; Legal Malpractice Defense; Litigation; Media, Entertainment and Technology; Mergers and Acquisitions; Outsourcing Transactions; Private Equity; Public Policy; Real Estate; Securities Enforcement; Securities Litigation; Securities Regulation; Tax; White Collar Defense and Investigations.

Nationwide Privacy Class Action Dismissed in In Re iPhone Application Litigation Based on Lack of Article III Standing
S. Ashlie Beringer,Joshua A. Jessen,Gail Lees,Daniel Y. Li, September 29, 2011
On September 20, 2011, Judge Lucy H. Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order in In re iPhone Application Litigation, Case No. 11-MD-02250-LHK, dismissing a putative nationwide class action against Apple Inc. and eight mobile advertising and...

E-Discovery Basics: Cross-Border E-Discovery (Vol. 1, No. 11)
Catherine D. Brewer,Patrick Doris,Gareth Evans,Farrah Pepper,Daniel Pollard, July 27, 2011
In previous installments of E-Discovery Basics, we discussed each of the stages in the e-discovery life cycle--starting with litigation preparedness, legal holds and preservation, and proceeding to processing, review, production, admissibility and presentation of electronically stored information...

California Supreme Court Extends California Overtime Laws to Non-California-Based Employees When Working in the State
Christopher Chorba,Heather D. Hearne,Elisabeth Watson, July 11, 2011
In a ruling that could spur a new wave of wage and hour class action litigation, the Supreme Court of California unanimously held in Sullivan v. Oracle Corp. that non-California employees were entitled overtime pay under California law (which requires daily overtime pay after eight hours worked in...

Unless Otherwise Indicated All Members and Associates of the firm are members of The State Bar of California.

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