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(Reuters) – Former U.S. Circuit Judge Gregg Costa has accepted an offer to join Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher after resigning from his position as one of the few Democratic appointees on the conservative-majority 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
An appointee of former President Barack Obama, he joined the New Orleans-based court in 2014. Costa, 50, left the bench last week at a relatively young age for a judge after becoming critical of the increasing politicization of the judiciary.
He is now expected to join Gibson Dunn’s Houston office and become co-chair of its global trial practice group, the person said. He had said he planned to return to private practice but had not said where he would work.
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The news was first reported by Insider. Costa could not be reached for comment, and a spokesperson for Gibson Dunn declined to comment.
Costa, who clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, worked as an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges for about three years before becoming a federal prosecutor in Houston in 2005.
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