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Trevor Gopnik is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he currently practices in the firm’s Litigation, While Collar Defense and Investigations, and Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice Groups. Trevor’s practice focuses on complex and high-stakes litigation disputes, with a particular focus on white collar crime, bankruptcy-related litigation, and securities enforcement.
Trevor also maintains an active pro bono practice in which he works extensively with organizations such as the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, the Innocence Project, Legal Services NYC, and the Southern Center for Human Rights, among others. In 2021, Trevor was a key part of the Gibson Dunn team that was awarded the Richard D. Ogers Pro Bono Partner Award by the Giffords Law Center. Gibson received this award as recognition for its work as lead counsel in a case seeking to compel the ATF to properly regulate “ghost guns” and in assisting with numerous amicus briefs, including a powerful brief that 139 members of the US House of Representatives filed in one of the most important Second Amendment cases to reach the Supreme Court in a decade. Trevor currently serves on the pro bono advisory board for Legal Services NYC.
Trevor received his Juris Doctor in 2018 from Columbia Law School, where he was recognized as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and was a recipient of the Parker School Certificate of Achievement in International Law. He also holds a Master of Laws degree in International Criminal Law, cum laude, from the University of Amsterdam Law School. From 2019 to 2020, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Helen Gillmor of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.
Trevor is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
University of Amsterdam - 2018 Master of Laws (LL.M.)
Columbia University - 2018 Juris Doctor
University of Virginia - 2013 Bachelor of Arts
New York Bar