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Obituaries

Apr. 26, 2022

Ronald S. Beard, 1939 — 2022

The former Gibson Dunn & Crutcher managing partner and chairman Ron Beard died at 83 of cancer.

Ronald S. Beard predicted early in his legal career that the big law firms that exist today would lead to a hypercompetitive globalized market, and his expertise skyrocketed Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher into that echelon.

“He saw that the top firms would become an elite group separate from the rest of the industry, and he drove Gibson Dunn to compete at that level, and to succeed at that level,” said Peter Zeughauser of the Zeughauser Grou...

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