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Litigation

Feb. 25, 2014

Star litigator at helm of case that could reshape teacher tenure rules

Gibson Dunn partner Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., still glowing from the firm's successful challenge of California's ban on same-sex marriage, is at the fore of another potentially landmark civil suit.


By Chase Scheinbaum


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - In May 2012, when Theodore J. Boutrous Jr.'s legal team filed a closely watched education lawsuit now in trial in superior court here, he may well have had déjà vu. At the time, he was co-leading a team of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP attorneys toward the U.S. Supreme Court in another impact litigation matter - the effort to strike down Proposition 8, California's anti-gay marriage...

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