Esther Lifshitz is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, white collar defense, and internal and regulatory investigations.

She has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® as “One to Watch” in the area of Commercial Litigation.

Esther received her Juris Doctor in 2014 from University of Chicago Law School, where she was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. In 2010, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Esther served as a law clerk to the Honorable Eric N. Vitaliano of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Before that, she was a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York.

Esther is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Publications:

• Co-Author, The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s Valuation Regulation in Bankruptcy: Entitled to Chevron Deference or Arbitrary and Capricious, 20 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. 247 (2017).