Brian Yeh

Brian Yeh is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts, at both the trial and appellate levels. He has represented clients across a variety of industries, including technology, labor and employment, and life sciences. 

Brian maintains an active pro bono practice. He currently represents several individuals in an appeal before the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, in an action raising novel questions about the scope of New Jersey’s recently enacted law against strategic lawsuits against public participation (“SLAPP”). Brian successfully represented a client in an appeal of the denial of a resentencing application under New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA), resulting in the client’s immediate release from incarceration. Brian was also part of a trial team that secured a unanimous federal jury verdict in the Central District of California for the firm’s pro bono client, Deon Jones, who was shot in the face with a rubber bullet during racial justice protests in May 2020. He also secured the dismissal of defamation and other claims targeting a pro bono client for exercising her First Amendment right to advocate that her ex-husband grant her a religious divorce. 

Brian clerked for the Honorable Helene N. White of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Honorable Edward G. Smith of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prior to clerking, he was an associate in Gibson Dunn’s New York office.

Brian received his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2019, where he served as an Articles Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Prior to law school, Brian worked as a program associate at the Center for Reproductive Rights, and as a legal assistant at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). He received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude from the Ohio State University in 2014, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Brian is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Publications

• Co-Author, Precedent-Setting Decisions Show the Promise of New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act, New York Law Journal (Mar. 11, 2024)

Capabilities

• Litigation
• Appellate and Constitutional Law
• Labor and Employment
• Law Firm Defense
• Trials

Credentials

Education:

• University of Pennsylvania - 2019 Juris Doctor
• Ohio State University - 2014 Bachelor of Science

Admissions:

• New York Bar

Clerkships:

• US Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, Hon. Helene White, 2021 - 2022
• USDC, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Hon. Edward Smith, 2020 - 2021