Biography:
Thomas G. Hungar is an appellate litigation partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Co-Chair of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group. He has argued 24 cases before the Supreme Court, including some of the most important patent, antitrust, securities, and environmental law decisions issued by the Court in recent years, and he has also briefed and argued appeals before numerous lower federal and state appellate courts. He was nationally ranked as a top appellate attorney by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers for 2009.
Mr. Hungar served as a U.S. Deputy Solicitor General from 2003 until 2008. In that position, he supervised appellate litigation for the federal government in cases involving intellectual property, antitrust, securities, environmental, banking, bankruptcy, tax, government contracts, communications, labor, and international trade law. He had responsibility for more than 50 of the business-related cases decided by the Supreme Court during that period. According to ABC senior legal correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg, Mr. Hungar “dazzle[d] the justices with his arguments” before the Court.
Mr. Hungar has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and is a Master in the Edward Coke Appellate American Inn of Court. While at the Department of Justice, he was awarded the John Marshall Award for Outstanding Legal Achievement, the Department’s highest award presented to attorneys for contributions and excellence in legal performance.
Mr. Hungar served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court and to Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He received his law degree from Yale Law School and his bachelor of science degree in mathematics/computer science and economics from Willamette University, magna cum laude.
