Bulking up its litigation and white-collar defense group in the nation’s capital, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has hired Patrick Stokes, a longtime federal prosecutor and former high-ranking official in the Justice Department’s fraud division.
Stokes, who spent his last day with the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday, is expected to join Gibson Dunn after Labor Day as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He comes to the firm after nearly two decades as a federal prosecutor, including his most recent stint as a senior deputy chief of the fraud section in the DOJ’s criminal division. Before that, Stokes was chief of the agency’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act unit and co-head of its securities and financial fraud unit.
