Katy Sharp is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and focuses primarily on government investigations. Katy has represented clients in the construction management, education, telecommunications, healthcare, energy, and technology sectors.

She has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Education Law (2023-2024).

Katy earned her law degree from the University of Southern California, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as a copy editor on the Southern California Law Review. She also received the Eleanor Klein Merit Award, which is presented to an outstanding graduating female. While at the University of Southern California, Katy was a writing fellow in the Legal Writing and Advocacy Program and externed in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Civil Division and the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, Juvenile Division. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Yale University.

Katy is admitted to practice law in the State of California and before the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Publications:

• Co-Author, “2015 Year- End Sanctions Update,” Gibson Dunn Client Alert, (February 2, 2016)