Lawrence VanDyke

Lawrence VanDyke is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.  He practices in the firm’s Litigation and Appellate and Constitutional Law practice groups and has represented clients in a broad range of cases before federal and state appellate and trial courts, as well as before state and federal agencies.  Mr. VanDyke has experience at every stage of litigation, including preparing complaints and motions for preliminary injunction, discovery and depositions, complex motion practice, briefing appeals, and arguing cases.  He has also provided advice to clients on constitutional and statutory questions outside of the litigation context.

Mr. VanDyke has represented clients in matters involving federal and state constitutional issues, class action certification, punitive damages, federal preemption, antitrust, statutory interpretation, securities claims, election law, intellectual property, honest services mail and wire fraud, bankruptcy, and employment.

Recent Representative Matters

• Briefed cases and prepared petitions for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States, including cases challenging punitive damages, challenging a state supreme court’s application of a novel procedural rule to bar review of constitutional claims, challenging an honest services fraud conviction, and raising First Amendment claims in a variety of contexts.
• Briefed cases in the Texas Supreme Court and other state supreme courts, including cases involving sovereign immunity, eminent domain, energy law, punitive damages, statutory interpretation, and contact interpretation.
• Briefed cases in the Fifth Circuit and other federal circuits, including cases involving antitrust issues, health care, securities law, insurance claims, attorney’s fees, and punitive damages.
• Defended businesses in trial court against federal and state class actions, including cases alleging labor violations and patent-related monopolization and conspiracy claims. 
• Successfully brought suit enjoining state laws on behalf of businesses as well as non-profit entities. 
• Represented public officials against claims brought against them in their official and public capacities.

Mr. VanDyke graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of both the Harvard Law Review and Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.  He received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering with highest honors and his masters in engineering management from Montana State University.
 
Prior to joining the Dallas office in 2007, Mr. VanDyke worked in the firm’s D.C. office.  He clerked for the Honorable Janice Rogers Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  Before practicing law, he was vice-president of a construction management company in Bozeman, Montana.

Mr. VanDyke is admitted to practice in Texas and the District of Columbia.  He is also admitted to the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the District of Columbia Circuit, as well as the United States District Courts for the Western District of Texas, the Northern District of Texas, and the District of Columbia.  He is an inactive member of the Montana Bar.