Irvine, Calif. – Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Jeffrey Reeves has been named as the Co-Partner-in-Charge of the firm's Orange County office, effective immediately. Reeves joins Jeffrey Thomas, current Partner-in-Charge, in leading the office.

"Jeff Reeves is a terrific lawyer and partner who inspires others with his enthusiasm, " said Ken Doran, Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn. "He will be a terrific leader. Jeff is very connected to the Orange County business community and is committed to continuing to build our Orange County office."

Reeves is a member of the firm's Litigation, Securities, Media & Entertainment, and Class Action and Complex Litigation Practice Groups. He has handled all sorts of business litigation cases, including consumer and securities fraud class action cases, unfair competition, theft of trade secrets, auditing malpractice, accounting malpractice, Indian gaming, entertainment litigation and intellectual property matters. He is currently representing Grateful Dead Productions and a number of other rock and roll music icons as plaintiffs in federal court litigation asserting claims regarding the alleged unauthorized exploitation of artists' rights of publicity and other intellectual property rights.

Active in the community, Reeves is a member of United Way's Tocqueville Society, serves on the Board of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Orange County, is President Emeritus of the Constitutional Rights Foundation of Orange County and secretary to the Board of the Orange County Youth Sports Foundation, which provides scholarships to deserving Orange County high school scholar athletes.

He is also active in a number of professional organizations. Reeves is a past President of the Federal Bar Association of Orange County and is currently serving a three-year term on the Federal Bar Association's national Government Relations Committee in Washington D.C. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Orange County Chapter, and a member of the Orange County Bar Association.

Reeves graduated cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center in 1991 and served as Research Editor for the Houston Law Review.

Gibson Dunn's Orange County office, established in 1964, has over 75 lawyers and offers a full range of legal services. The office services a broad range of national and international public and private companies. Its principal areas of practice are business and corporate, litigation, white collar defense and regulatory enforcement, real estate, environmental and natural resources, intellectual property, labor and employment, all areas of business taxation (corporate and partnership), tax audits and tax litigation, employee benefits, and bankruptcy.

The Orange County office's trial lawyers handle all aspects of civil litigation, including antitrust, commercial, securities, professional liability, mass torts, unfair competition, intellectual property and trade secrets, construction, environmental, land use and other real property matters. The Orange County litigators also have extensive experience in arbitrations, mediations, and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings.

Its corporate lawyers advise publicly traded and privately held companies in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, debt restructuring, joint ventures, licensing of intellectual property, and general business law.

The Orange County real estate practice encompasses a spectrum of specialty areas at the local and national level, including finance and investment, commercial and residential development, land use, environmental issues and workouts. The Labor and Employment department represents and advises management in a wide array of employment matters, including employment discrimination cases, wrongful termination litigation, negotiations and arbitrations under collective bargaining agreements, unfair competition claims, wage and hour issues, and proceedings before various state and federal agencies such as the EEOC, OSHA and the NLRB.