Former federal judge Gregg Costa is about to join Gibson Dunn in a senior role, Insider has learned.
Costa is joining the law firm's Houston office as a partner with a leadership role and is expected to work on white-collar matters, the person said. While Costa's return to the private sector has been expected since January, when his departure from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals was announced, his planned move to Gibson hasn't been reported.
Costa's decision to step down from the Fifth Circuit took many by surprise, given how rare it is for judges, who have life tenure, to leave before they reach retirement age. Costa clerked for the conservative Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist and was appointed by President Barack Obama, first as a district court judge in Galveston, Texas and later as an appeals judge.
earlier his year in an effort to keep rainmakers and has seen a string of big hires and departures. The firm is hiring Apple's chief privacy officer, Jane Horvath, and has added disputes and deals lawyers from competing firms. It has also lost big names, including Randy Mastro, whose planned move to King & Spalding wasBefore becoming a judge, Costa was an associate attorney at the law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges and a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Texas.
prof_jpc Seems shameful to me. I can’t imagine doing this in a million years
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