Allyson Ho, '00: Veteran SCOTUS Advocate Joins Gibson Dunn
Veteran SCOTUS Advocate Allyson Ho Jumps to Gibson Dunn From Morgan Lewis
A former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Ho has argued four cases before the high court. Ho joins Gibson Dunn's Dallas office, where her husband, James Ho, recently was a partner before his confirmation to the Fifth Circuit.
Leading appellate litigator Allyson Ho today joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner in its Dallas office after nearly 10 years as a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, also in Dallas.
A former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Ho has argued four cases before the high court—including, most recently, in the key patent case Oil States Energy Services v. Greene’s Energy Group, decided in April. In the 2014 term, she was the only woman in private practice to appear more than once before the justices, arguing two cases in the span of 21 days.
“In many ways, going to Gibson is like coming home for me,” Ho said in an interview before today’s announcement. She was a summer associate at Gibson nearly 20 years ago. And in 2006 her husband James Ho—now a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit—joined Gibson in the Dallas office.
Asked if she would take over her husband’s former office, Ho laughed. “Not only his office but his parking space,” she said. Was the firm leaving those spaces vacant for her? “I can’t speak to that,” she replied, “but they’re vacant now, and I’m really looking forward to it.”
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