Daniel Rubin is an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office, where he practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Daniel earned a degree from Stanford Law School in 2017. While in law school, he was a finalist in the Kirkwood Moot Court competition, served as a notes editor for the Stanford Law Review, and argued various motions in California state court through the Criminal Defense Clinic. Daniel graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 2012 from Washington University in St. Louis with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History. After college, he completed a Luce Fellowship in New Delhi, India and served as an AmeriCorps fellow in Boston, Massachusetts.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Daniel clerked for the Honorable Gregg Costa of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

He is admitted to practice law in California as well as the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Representative matters include:

• Represented and obtained dismissal for three Southern California cardrooms in a multi-defendant lawsuit bringing bellwether constitutional and statutory challenges to the legality of the games the cardrooms play.
• Represented and obtained dismissal for an entertainment company in high-profile lawsuit regarding a fire at the company’s former warehouse.
• Retained by the California Legislative Counsel Bureau to conduct independent investigations of allegations of sexual harassment and other workplace misconduct by Members and senior staff of the State Assembly.
• Representing  individual client bringing tort claims against the United States government as a result of being separated from his children pursuant to the Trump Administration’s  now-revoked family-separation policy.