Sophia Brill is of counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the White Collar, Congressional Investigations, Appellate and Constitutional Law, National Security, and Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Groups.
Sophia has more than a decade of experience serving in senior roles in both the Executive Branch and Capitol Hill. Most recently, she served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Prior to that, she served as Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office and as Senior Counsel in the Justice Department’s National Security Division. Sophia has also served as Chief Counsel to Senator Chris Coons and as counsel to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Through these and other roles, Sophia has extensive experience advising clients on high-profile litigation, congressional investigations, sensitive national security matters, and complex constitutional issues.
Sophia clerked for Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and for the Honorable Merrick B. Garland on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She earned her law degree from Yale Law School, where she served on the Yale Law Journal and was a member of the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale, where she majored in Ethics, Politics, and Economics.
Capabilities
- Litigation
- Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
- Appellate and Constitutional Law
- Artificial Intelligence
- Crisis Management
- Media, Entertainment, and Technology
- National Security
- Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation
- Public Policy
- Sanctions and Export Enforcement
- Technology Litigation
- Transnational Litigation
- Transportation and Space
- Trials
- White Collar Defense and Investigations
Credentials
Education:
- Yale University - 2011 Juris Doctor
- Yale University - 2007 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- District of Columbia Bar
Clerkships:
- US Supreme Court, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, 2013 - 2014
- US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit, Hon. Merrick B. Garland, 2011 - 2012