Savannah Silver is a litigation associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Groups.
Savannah focuses her practice at both the appellate and trial level on the strategy, briefing, and argument of complex legal issues in high-stakes class actions involving constitutional law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and contract disputes. She served as the lead associate drafting briefs on behalf of the University of Southern California against a high-profile class action, resulting in a favorable classwide settlement. Savannah also defends a major telecommunications company in several pending class actions including second-chairing an appeal in federal court involving a complex statutory framework.
Savannah maintains an active pro bono practice in which she partners with Advocates for Community Transformation to bring peace and safety to Dallas families and neighborhoods threatened by crime.
Before joining Gibson Dunn, Savannah served as a law clerk for Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Judge Brantley Starr of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Savannah graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 2020. She received a Bachelor of Science summa cum laude from Auburn University, where she majored in Quantitative Economics. Savannah is actively involved in the Federalist Society’s Dallas chapter.
Savannah is a member of the Texas bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second and Fifth Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Texas.
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- University of Chicago Law School - 2020 Juris Doctor
- Auburn University - 2016 Bachelor of Science
Admissions:
- Texas Bar
Clerkships:
- USDC, Northern District of Texas, Hon. Brantley D. Starr, 2021 - 2022
- US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Hon. Jennifer Walker Elrod, 2020 - 2021