Gibson Dunn Lawyer on Trump and Concerns Among the LGBT Community

With Donald Trump set to be inaugurated as the 45th President on Friday, LGBT advocacy groups around the country are bracing for what they fear could be a setback for their community. Chief among them is Joseph Vardner, a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher associate who was just elected vice president of the LGBT Bar Association of DC, a nonpartisan group that represents Washington, D.C.'s LGBT community to the legal profession and local community.

Vardner joined Gibson Dunn in 2015 from the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, and has a history of volunteering with groups that work on landlord-tenant issues and issues ...