Eugene Scalia is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Washington, D.C. and co-chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Group and chair of the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Group. He has a national labor and employment practice handling a broad range of matters including those involving ERISA, the antidiscrimination laws, and the Sarbanes-Oxley “whistleblower” provision. He formerly served as Solicitor of the U.S. Department of Labor, with responsibility for the federal government’s civil enforcement of ERISA, the wage-hour laws, and the scores of other statutes administered by the department. Matters for which he had responsibility include the Labor Department’s investigation of the Enron pension plans. Mr. Scalia is the author of more than twenty articles and papers on labor and employment law, constitutional law, and other subjects. In 2006, he was named regulatory compliance “Lawyer of the Year” by Institutional Investor’s Compliance Reporter magazine, in recognition of his representation of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in two successful challenges in the D.C. Circuit to the SEC’s mutual fund “governance” rule. In the same year he was named the “Top Washington, D.C. Lawyer” in employment litigation by the Washington Business Journal. He also is listed as one of the district’s leading labor and employment lawyers in the Chambers USA Guide to Leading Lawyers for Business, and in the International Who’s Who Legal USA--Management Labour & Employment, 2006. He received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was editor in chief of the Law Review. He served as Special Assistant to U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr from 1992 to 1993.