Susan Pelletier is Of Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the Administrative Law & Regulatory, White Collar Defense & Investigations, Crisis Management, and Appellate & Constitutional Law practice groups. Her practice focuses on representing and advising clients in matters that involve complex legal and reputational risks.
Susan has extensive experience representing clients in high profile matters involving constitutional and administrative law issues and advising clients facing significant public scrutiny. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, she served as Senior Counselor to the Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice, where she advised the Attorney General and other senior Department leaders on a wide range of legal and public policy issues. In that role, she was involved in some of the federal government’s most significant litigation, including enforcement matters and challenges to agency actions. Before serving in the government, she was a counsel in another Washington, D.C. law firm where she represented clients in all stages of government-facing, regulatory, and commercial litigation as well as in congressional and internal investigations. She has led briefing on numerous cases and presented argument before multiple federal courts of appeals and district courts. The American Lawyer has recognized her in its “Litigators of the Week” feature.
Susan clerked for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and for Judge Merrick B. Garland and Judge Harry T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She earned her law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served on the Harvard Law Review. She graduated summa cum laude from New York University, where she studied media and journalism.
Capabilities
- Crisis Management
- Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
- Appellate and Constitutional Law
- First Amendment and Free Expression
- Litigation
- Media, Entertainment, and Technology
- Public Policy
- White Collar Defense and Investigations
Credentials
Education:
- Harvard University - 2016 Juris Doctor
- New York University - 2011 Bachelor of Science
Admissions:
- District of Columbia Bar
Clerkships:
- US Supreme Court, Hon. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2019 - 2020
- US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit, Hon. Harry T. Edwards, 2017 - 2018
- US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit, Hon. Merrick B. Garland, 2016 - 2017