9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Reno, Nevada)
When 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Lawrence VanDyke was an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, he prepped a partner on an issue in an antitrust case over dinner on the night before the argument.
"It was not a doctrine that as an antitrust lawyer I had dealt with day in and day out," recalled Sean Royall, the partner on the case, who is now at Sidley Austin LLP. "To be prepared, you needed to get into a diffe... (continued)