Ms. Yang is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office.  Ms. Yang has long represented companies, boards, and audit and other board committees in internal investigations, compliance-related issues, and criminal investigations regarding the FCPA, health care laws, financial controls, trade secrets, and cyber/data intrusions, among multiple other areas.  She serves as Special Counsel to a corporate compliance committee.  She is experienced in overseeing teams of lawyers conducting internal investigations and has frequently reviewed and revamped compliance programs in a variety of industries.

Ms. Yang was appointed U. S. Attorney in May 2002 by President George W. Bush, becoming the first Asian-American woman to serve in that capacity.  Prior to this service, Ms. Yang was a California state judge.  She was appointed to the Los Angeles Municipal Court in 1997, serving for a time as a Supervising Judge, and became a member of the Los Angeles Superior Court bench in 2000.  She was an Assistant U. S. Attorney for seven years prior to her judicial career, a role in which she prosecuted violent crimes, white-collar crimes, arson and computer crimes at the trial and appellate levels.

Ms. Yang continues to consistently receive national recognition for her work.  She was named a leading lawyer by Chambers USA in California for Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations, and The Daily Journal has also repeatedly named her to its annual list of 100 Leading Women Lawyers in California.  Ms. Yang received her Juris Doctor in 1985 from Boston College Law School and was a law clerk to the Honorable Ronald S.W. Lew in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.