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Top Women Lawyers

May 13, 2015

Debra Wong Yang

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Los Angeles


When an explosion at one of her clients' refineries led to several deaths, Yang was
at the facility within 72 hours.


"I could really appreciate and feel the loss of everybody in the small community up
there," Yang said. "So I didn't carry it with this great bravado of a defense attorney
swaggering into town. I actually came at it with the sensitivity of everybody grieving."
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