Nailing his U.S. Supreme Court debut, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner Thomas Dupree Jr. won a 9-0 decision on Tuesday morning that will make it harder to sue foreign companies in U.S. courts. At most law firms, that would have been the big news of the day. But within an hour headlines were popping up about another major appeals court ruling won by Gibson Dunn partner Helgi Walker that stymied the Federal Communications Commission’s latest attempt to impose so-called net neutrality on Internet providers.
“You’d think I wouldn’t have gotten upstaged,” Dupree joked in an interview. There’s no hard feelings though. “It was a memorable hour or so in the life of the firm, and particularly the D.C. office,” he said. “We congratulated each other at lunch.”
