Suzanne Span is an associate attorney in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she practices in the firm’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group.

Ms. Span earned her Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2021.  While attending law school, Ms. Span was a policy editor for the Harvard Law & Policy Review and a student lawyer in the Food Law and Policy Clinic and the International Human Rights Clinic.  Following her first year, Ms. Span was a law clerk for the Consumer Law section of the California Department of Justice.  Ms. Span received her B.S. with high honors from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Span was an associate in the Restructuring practice group of Sidley Austin LLP in Los Angeles.  Ms. Span also completed a fellowship at the Western Center on Law & Poverty, where she assisted with impact litigation relating to public benefits programs.

Ms. Span is a member of the bars of the State of California and the District of Columbia, and she is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Publications

• Author, “Subrogated guarantors should get all the fruits of underlying obligations,” Daily Journal (March 17, 2022)