Rachel Robertson is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Rachel was a law clerk for the Honorable Sidney A. Fitzwater of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. During her clerkship, Judge Fitzwater sat by designation on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, pursuant to which Rachel assisted the Judge in hearing appeals from various federal district courts.

Rachel has been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® in America from 2022-2024 for Commercial Litigation.

She received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was the notes development editor and a member of the Executive Board of the Virginia Law Review.  While in law school, Rachel participated in the Appellate Litigation Clinic and won an immigration appeal in the Fourth Circuit. She also was elected to The Raven Society, served as the President of the Unified Journal Tryout, and was awarded a Dillard Fellowship on the basis of a legal editing and writing competition. Rachel graduated with highest honors from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and History. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Before law school, Rachel taught in Houston as a Teach For America corps member, and she was named a semi-finalist for the Sue Lehmann Excellence in Teaching Award.

Rachel is admitted to practice in the State of Texas.