Justin Torres is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He practices in the firm's Litigation Department and is a member of its Appellate and Constitutional Law practice group.
Mr. Torres has represented clients:
ˇ In criminal prosecutions for violations of intellectual property and environmental laws, including co-chairing a three-week trademark counterfeit trial in the Eastern District of Virginia;
ˇ In criminal and civil investigations by the SEC and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency;
ˇ In suits alleging violations of the False Claims Act; and
ˇ In state and federal corporate shareholder actions.
Mr. Torres's appellate practice includes representation of clients accused of criminal violations of intellectual property and environmental laws in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Circuits.
Mr. Torres graduated from the University of Virginia Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law & Politics. After graduation, he clerked for the Honorable Edith Brown Clement of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and for the Honorable Kurt D. Engelhardt of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Dallas with a bachelor's degree in English.
Prior to attending law school, Mr. Torres worked as a reporter and editor, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and as Associate Director of the Corporation for National Service, the federal agency that administers AmeriCorps and other national service programs.