Patrick F. Speice, Jr. is an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Washington, D.C. office.  Mr. Speice currently practices in the firm’s International Trade Regulation and Compliance Department, focusing on export controls and economic sanctions compliance, and in the firm's Litigation Department. 

He earned his J.D. in 2006 from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary, where he served as an Articles Editor for the William and Mary Law Review and as a Graduate Research Fellow.  Mr. Speice earned a B.A. in political science cum laude in 2003 from Wake Forest University, where he was a member of the nationally ranked policy debate team. 

He has authored or co-authored articles including:       

• "Negligence and Nuclear Nonproliferation: Eliminating the Current Liability Barrier to Bilateral U.S.-Russian Nonproliferation Assistance Programs," 47 William & Mary Law Review 1427, (2006);       

• "Pretty Woman Meets the Man Who Wears the Star: Fair Use After Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music and American Geophysical Union v. Texaco," 54 J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y U.S.A. 719, co-authored with Anne E. Forkner and James S. Heller (2007).

Mr. Speice is a member of the bars of Virginia and the District of Columbia.