
Washington, D.C.
Clients have relied on Hillary’s representation in multidistrict litigation, statewide coordinated proceedings, class actions, and government enforcement actions filed in federal and state courts throughout the country. Additionally, Hillary has represented pharmaceutical companies and government contractors in False Claims Act litigation and government investigations. Hillary’s litigation experience spans from initial case and dispositive motions assessment, to both bench and jury trials, and all fact and expert discovery, motions practice, and other trial preparation in between, including considerable work with company witnesses, medical and public health experts, and U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory experts. Hillary has also advised clients on product liability exposure and litigation risk related to FDA regulations and guidance.
Hillary’s active pro bono practice includes advising clients on civil rights and immigration matters. She has secured asylum for an individual from Cameroon and successfully argued for a renewed bond hearing for an unlawfully detained immigrant before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Prior to joining Orrick, Hillary practiced at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. From 2020-2021, she clerked for the Honorable M. Casey Rodgers in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. While in law school, Hillary completed a judicial externship with the Honorable Tanya S. Chutkan in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
New York
He is also the founder of the firm’s Whistleblower Task Force. He previously served as the Managing Director of Orrick’s Litigation Division. The practice group under Mike’s leadership was chosen as one of the top national employment law practices by Law 360.
Chambers USA and Chambers Global has ranked him in Band 1 since it began publishing its rankings, noting he is "a giant of the employment bar, widely regarded as an expert in whistleblowing matters and sex harassment claims,” “sought out by premier clients to handle high-stakes employment litigation and investigations,” and "one of the best lawyers on the East Coast for financial institutions."
Mike has an active trial, arbitration, and appellate practice and handles a number of high-visibility class action and impact cases. He is regularly retained by boards of directors and audit committees to conduct high exposure internal investigations of corporate wrongdoing.
Los Angeles
Deena works on matters for a diverse range of clients, from international tech and utility construction companies, and pharmaceutical companies to the National Collegiate Athletic Association. From day one, she was an integral member of the winning trial team for the first collegiate football concussion and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy case to reach a jury trial for the NCAA, as well as managing the discovery process for several other of the NCAA’s football concussion cases. She is also active in multi-language international arbitration matters, working with clients and experts across the globe.
Recently, Deena has represented a number of technology companies, working on matters involving cryptocurrency investments and international service issues, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and other copyright and data access issues, and disputes related to disgruntled employees and stock options.
Deena has consistently maintained an active pro bono case load, having secured asylum for six individuals in the last three years. She currently represents an inmate through the the United States District Court for the Central District of California’s Pro Bono Civil Rights Panel and represented a tenant in an eviction action alongside Public Counsel.
Deena is a respected leader at Orrick. Since joining the firm, she has served as Co-Chair of the Middle Eastern and North African inclusion network and Co-Chair of the Los Angeles Office’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee for several years, currently sits on the firmwide Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, and was a featured speaker for Kōrero, Orrick’s Women’s Initiative’s monthly firmwide community conversations. In 2022, Deena received the firm’s Community Responsibility Award for her humanitarian work with the Armenian Bar Association in connection with the war by Azerbaijan against Nagorno-Karabagh.
Deena is an active member of the Armenian community, serving as Co-Vice Chair of the Armenian Woman’s Bar Association. While in law school, Deena was the Co-Founder and President of the Armenian Law Students Association. She was also a member of Georgetown’s Barrister’s Council’s Alternate Dispute Resolution division, winning Georgetown’s Bellamy Negotiation Competition and securing an honorable mention for Georgetown’s brief at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Hong Kong, a student attorney with Georgetown's Juvenile Justice Clinic, the Executive Editor for the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, and wrote for the Georgetown Law Technology Review.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Nathan represents and advises the firm on all issues regarding claims and is responsible for managing the firm’s complex litigation strategies. He retains and supervises outside defense counsel, coordinates coverage and related issues with the firm’s insurance carriers, and ensures the effective and efficient defense of claims against the firm. Nathan is also a member of Orrick’s Risk Management Committee, responsible for promoting risk awareness and prevention through risk management training, internal firm publications, and risk management audits.
Prior to taking on his current role, Nathan was a member of Orrick's Complex Litigation and Dispute Resolution group. With over two decades of litigation and trial experience, Nathan has practiced before state and federal courts and has arbitrated matters before The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the International Center for Dispute Resolution.
Nathan joined Orrick as a summer associate in 2001. In 2007, he took a brief leave of absence to work as a prosecutor in the San Francisco County District Attorney’s Office.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Sarah’s practice focuses on representing corporations and individuals in a variety of industries in complex business litigation and disputes. Sarah represents financial institutions, technology corporations, and other entities in a wide range of civil disputes.
Sarah has experience representing corporations in all stages of litigation, including pre-suit demands, motions to dismiss, fact and expert discovery and depositions, trial preparation, and trial.
Seattle
Chambers USA observed Dan’s “enviable client roster includes major corporates and financial institutions, as well as company directors, officers and accountants. He is particularly active in securities-related litigation, with additional experience in shareholder disputes. Adept in the courtroom, has tried more than a dozen cases to verdict in state and federal courts.” One client characterized his cross examination of a Nobel-Laureate economist as simply “amazing.”
Dan has enjoyed considerable success in high-profile national matters with the finest law firms in the country from coast to coast, from the Delaware Court of Chancery to New York Supreme Court to the Washington Supreme Court, where he recently argued an issue of first impression under the Washington State Securities Act. Dan has active matters advising Washington’s most sophisticated legal clients with respect to securities and shareholder matters.
Dan has also been a key part of the winning Orrick team leading the defense of Credit Suisse in against an avalanche of litigation related to claims involving residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). Dan has acted as co-lead partner on a number of successful constitutional challenges to state and local taxes and legislation.
Düsseldorf
Er war bislang als anwaltlicher Vertreter, beisitzender Schiedsrichter, Einzelschiedsrichter oder Vorsitzender des Schiedsgerichts in über 300 Schiedsverfahren tätig, darunter ad hoc-Verfahren sowie Schiedsverfahren nach den Regeln der führenden Schiedsinstitutionen.
Als Parteivertreter vertritt er private Investoren, internationale Unternehmen, souveräne Staaten und staatseigene Unternehmen in einer Reihe von bedeutenden, sowie häufig grenzüberschreitenden Streitigkeiten.
Neben der Anwalts- und Schiedsrichtertätigkeit tritt Prof. Dr. Elsing auch als Sachverständiger sowohl vor deutschen Gerichten als auch vor Gerichten in den USA und in Großbritannien sowie vor normsetzenden Institutionen auf.
Seine Erfahrung erstreckt sich auf Streitigkeiten u. a. aus den Bereichen M&A, Energie, Anlagenbau, Investitionsschutz, Finanzierungen, Joint Ventures sowie des gewerblichen Rechtschutzes.
Er ist sowohl in Deutschland als auch in New York als Attorney-at-law zugelassen.
Chambers Global 2024 bezeichnet Prof. Dr. Elsing als „Star Individual“, der „oft in komplexen internationalen Schiedsverfahren als Schiedsrichter benannt wird“, und zudem „ein führender Praktiker auf dem Gebiet der Investitionsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit“ mit „umfangreicher Erfahrung als Schiedsrichter in investitionsrechtlichen Fällen“ ist.
Prof. Dr. Elsing war von 2009 bis 2020 Beiratsmitglied der American Arbitration Association und von 2011 bis 2017 Mitglied des Panel of Conciliators des International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Er gehörte von 2012 bis 2022 dem Vorstand der Deutschen Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit e.V. (DIS) an; seit 2022 ist er Mitglied in deren DIS-Rat. Zudem war er Vorsitzender des Mediation Committee der International Bar Association (IBA) (2007-2008).
Er ist Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift für Schiedsverfahren (SchiedsVZ). Er hält regelmäßig Vorträge und veröffentlicht zu Themen der internationalen Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit und zur Rechtsvergleichung. Ferner ist er Honorarprofessor der Juristischen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, wo er seit 25 Jahren internationale Wirtschaftsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit und internationales Zivilverfahrensrecht lehrt. Seit 2013 vertritt er das Großherzogtum Luxemburg als Honorarkonsul in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Prof. Dr. Elsing hat im Jahr 1989 die deutsche Anwaltskanzlei Hölters & Elsing mitbegründet und im Jahre 2008 die Fusion mit Orrick maßgeblich gesteuert.
New York
Hagit represents clients in international arbitrations across the world under the rules of all the major arbitral institutions including the ICDR/AAA, ICC and LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, JAMS and CPR and in cross-border disputes in courts across the United States. She has also served as an expert witness on New York law in proceedings in Canada and the United Kingdom.
Hagit is recognised as ‘a force to be reckoned with’ (Legal 500) who ‘thinks ten steps ahead’’ (Chambers) and has “astonishing legal skills”, including the ability “to analyze and sharpen arguments”. She was recognized as one of a select group of "Distinguished Leaders" by New York Law Journal (2021).
Hagit regularly teaches courses on arbitration and advocacy skills, sits as arbitrator and frequently writes and lectures on topics related to international business disputes. She is a member of the ICC Court of International Arbitration Commission, former chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Institute of Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), a current member of the CPR Council, ICC Commission, and a founding Board Member of the New York International Arbitration Center.
London
Rebecca acts for clients on a broad range of litigation and regulatory matters. She has particular experience in acting for professional services firms in contentious regulatory investigations, enforcement proceedings and negligence claims.
Düsseldorf
Dr. Faulhaber vertritt Mandanten in nationalen und internationalen Auseinandersetzungen. Hierzu zählen insbesondere Schiedsverfahren, darunter ad-hoc-Verfahren sowie Schiedsverfahren nach den Regelungen führender Schiedsinstitutionen. Auch wird er regelmäßig als Schiedsrichter benannt. Außerdem begleitet er Mandanten als Prozessvertreter vor den nationalen Gerichten sowie bei alternativen Streitbeilegungsverfahren.
Dr. Faulhaber wird für seinen "proaktiven und geschickten" Ansatz gelobt (Chambers Global) und ist von Handelsblatt und Legal 500 wiederholt empfohlen worden. Ebenso wird seine langjährige Erfahrung bei der Beratung von M&A-Transaktionen und umfangreichen Lieferverträgen geschätzt. Er hält Vorträge und veröffentlicht regelmäßig zu diversen rechtlichen Fragestellungen.
London
Jake regularly acts for banks and other financial institutions and professional services firms in connection with cross-border litigation, arbitration, investigations and regulatory enforcement matters.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Andraya represents companies throughout different stages of litigation across a range of areas, with a focus on the technology, energy, and finance sectors.
Prior to joining Orrick, Andraya clerked for the Honorable Paul J. Kelly, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. While in law school, she externed for the Honorable Jon E. DeGuilio of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. Andraya earned her law degree from Notre Dame Law School where she served as the Executive Notes Editor for the Notre Dame Law Review.