WASHINGTON, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that TIME named Washington, D.C. partner Theodore B. Olson to the 2010 TIME 100, the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Attorneys Argued Bush v. Gore on Opposite Sides; Now Joined to Strike Down Prop.

By Katie Mulvaney The governor hires former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson -- at a cost of $200,000 -- for the U.S. Supreme Court appeal on Narragansett Indian land. Governor Carcieri has enlisted the man who successfully argued the case that put George W.

The U.S. Justice Department attorney who represents the White House's legal positions before the U.S. Supreme Court announced Wednesday he is retiring.

WASHINGTON _ President Bush's nomination Monday of former federal judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general won praise from unlikely quarters and possibly averted a contentious Senate confirmation battle.