Kristen Durkan is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  She currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Ms. Durkan graduated magna cum laude from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, where she was a Sayre MacNeil Scholar, a member of the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society, and elected to the Order of the Coif.  While in law school, Ms. Durkan was a member of the Juvenile Innocence and Fair Sentencing Clinic and served as a Developments Editor for the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review.  Prior to law school, Ms. Durkan earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from California State University, Long Beach, where she graduated magna cum laude.

Ms. Durkan is admitted to practice in the State of California.