Gregory J. Kerwin
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Gregory J. Kerwin, Esq., is a litigation partner in Gibson Dunn's Denver office, experienced in handling major trials and appeals. Mr. Kerwin represents clients in complex commercial disputes, with emphasis on securities, antitrust, and business tort and contract disputes. He has served as lead or second-chair in approximately 20 jury trials, bench trials, and arbitrations, and has argued and briefed many cases in the Colorado appellate courts, Tenth Circuit and Ninth Circuit. Besides extensive work in state and federal court in Colorado, Mr. Kerwin has represented clients in trial courts in 20 other states besides Colorado: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. A native of Denver, Mr. Kerwin graduated from Colorado College in 1981 and the Duke University School of Law in 1984. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Duke Law Journal from 1983-84. He served as a law clerk for Judge James K. Logan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 1984-85. Mr. Kerwin wrote chapters on appellate standards of review and preparing certiorari petitions in A. Gill, Colorado Appellate Law and Practice (West 2d ed. 2007), and co-authored the chapter titled “The Insider's Guide to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit” in the American Bar Association Council of Appellate Lawyers' treatise called the Appellate Practice Compendium (2012). He co-chaired seminars on Colorado appellate practice in 1997 and 1999 and was a speaker or moderator on Colorado appellate practice at programs in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2011. He served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tenth Circuit Historical Society between 2008-2011.
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