Meryl L. Young, a partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, joined the firm in 1983.  She practices in the firm's Orange County office.  A member of the firm's Litigation Department, Ms. Young's practice focuses on complex business and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on securities litigation and accountants' liability cases.  Ms. Young represents companies, directors and officers, and accounting firms in class actions, shareholder derivative suits and malpractice actions in both state and federal courts.  She has also handled a wide variety of other types of business litigation, including cases involving unfair business practices, misappropriation of trade secrets and other business torts, trademark and patent infringement, antitrust, real estate, employment and insurance issues.

Ms. Young is the chair of the federal Judicial Advisory Committee for the Southern District of California.  She is the chair-elect of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Advisory Board, and previously served as a member of the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference Executive Committee and co-chair of the Southern District of California Lawyer Representatives to the Conference.  She is a member of the Orange County Bar Association Judiciary Committee.  She is a past president of the San Diego chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers and a former member of the Board of Governors of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers in Orange County.  She participates in a variety of other community and professional organizations.  She is admitted to practice before the California and New York state courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, among others. 

Ms. Young is a member of the firm's five-member Management Committee and the Executive and Partnership Evaluation Committees.

Ms. Young was named by the Daily Journal as one of California's Top 30 Securities Litigators in 2005 and one of California’s Top 75 Women Litigators in 2006.

Ms. Young graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1980, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.  She received her bachelor of arts degree from Barnard College, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Ms. Young was an associate with the New York firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy from 1980 to 1983.