Orrick's lawyers are regarded for trying and winning cases. In significant, complex business disputes, we are trusted advisors to our clients in matters ranging from pre-litigation strategies to the decision of when and how to try cases. With nearly 500 litigators worldwide, including lawyers who bring experience from the United States Department of Justice, government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, district attorneys’ offices and judicial clerkships. We offer the combination of legal insight, courtroom experience, industry knowledge and practical business sense needed to help our clients prevail in the cases that are most critical to their businesses.

Orrick resolves large, complex product liability disputes and mass torts for leading companies in the pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, biotechnology, medical device, automotive and agricultural industries. We often serve as national coordinating counsel for clients involved in multi-jurisdiction litigation and have an impressive track record at trial, largely due to our innovative approaches in dealing with critical issues such as collective liability and junk science.

Lawyers in Orrick’s Securities Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement Group represent numerous companies and individuals in securities class actions, derivative actions, SEC enforcement matters, M&A-related litigation, self-regulatory organization proceedings and investigations on behalf of audit or special committees. The practice continues to add to its enviable track record of successful motions to dismiss, settlements and trials, driving the resolution of securities, corporate control and regulatory matters for clients in industries as diverse as accounting, banking, computer graphics, health care, industrial materials, new media, semiconductors and software.

Orrick’s Intellectual Property Group has earned a global reputation for defending and protecting our clients in their high-stakes disputes involving IP rights. Our interdisciplinary approach to strategic IP portfolio analysis, coupled with success in trial and appellate matters, makes us a leading choice for resolving complex IP disputes. Orrick’s global IP experience includes patent, trade secrets, anti-piracy, copyright, trademark and false advertising claims. Orrick is also known for our strength in handling matters before the U.S. International Trade Commission. Our industry experience ranges from clean technology, telecommunications, gaming and entertainment, Internet and e-commerce, and biotechnology to computer software, pharmaceuticals, digital film and semiconductors, among others.

Orrick’s Commercial Litigation practice leverages the capabilities of lawyers in 18 offices throughout the world, creating a formidable national and cross-border practice with a deep bench of senior trial lawyers who have successfully tried to judgment or verdict nearly every type of commercial dispute. Through litigation and arbitration, our team has handled a wide range of high-exposure commercial disputes involving contracts, accounting, consumer class actions, unfair business practices, antitrust and competition, insurance, corporate acquisitions and lender liability, among others. From fast-moving injunction proceedings to complex financial disputes and class actions, clients bring their high-risk business disputes to Orrick.

Orrick’s White Collar Criminal Defense and Corporate Investigations Group boasts many respected criminal defense lawyers, including 12 former Assistant United States Attorneys. Our lawyers are highly regarded among a global client base for our sophisticated handling of high-profile white collar cases and complex regulatory matters covering a broad range of issues, including antitrust, bank fraud, tax fraud, securities fraud, insider trading, corruption, racketeering and government contract fraud.

Orrick’s Employment Law Group provides assistance to many leading global corporations on their most complex and significant employment law disputes. We represent the world’s major financial services firms, retailers and high-tech companies. Our team has handled numerous high-exposure class and individual actions, and it also handles more Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 whistleblower cases before the U.S. Department of Labor and in the federal courts than any other firm. These include several high-profile matters in the pharmaceutical and financial services industries. A number of the group’s partners are recognized as leading practitioners by independent publications and surveys of clients and other practitioners.

Orrick’s International Dispute Resolution Group handles litigation matters in numerous jurisdictions and uses a wide range of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to resolve disputes by consensual rules outside public judicial forums, including arbitration, mediation, conciliation and minitrials. Our dispute resolution lawyers have extensive experience representing clients before major arbitration tribunals throughout the world.

When a client is facing a politically charged situation or high-profile crisis on a local, national or global scale, Orrick’s Legal Strategic and Crisis Management Group acts quickly to establish the client’s credibility and preserve a company’s brand, reputation and business relationships. Likewise, when a client has a strategic objective that has public or political implications, Orrick’s uniquely skilled practice develops an integrated, strategic approach. We custom-design solutions that fit our clients’ goals, whether it means taking a legal, public policy or public relations approach or, frequently, managing all three. Our team brings together a wealth of knowledge and experience in three areas necessary for quiet and effective strategic counseling or full-blown crisis management: political, government relations and public affairs expertise; communications and issues campaigns; and litigation and investigations. We have worked with clients in nearly every industry and on all manner of crisis and high-stakes issues, from allegations of accounting fraud to intellectual property claims to product liability disputes to immigration.