Managing Associate
Washington, D.C.
A member of Orrick’s Supreme Court and Appellate group, Tor is an experienced brief writer and a go-to resource on the interpretation of statutes, contracts, and patent claims.
While his experience runs the gamut, Tor’s practice focuses principally on intellectual-property disputes and litigation against government agencies. On the IP side, in addition to representing clients on appeal, he works actively with trial counsel at the district-court and agency levels, helping to build favorable records and preserve strong arguments. On the government-facing side, he chiefly litigates challenges to federal regulatory amendments, taking cases from notice and comment to filing to injunction and through appeal.
Tor has authored or coauthored briefs in the Supreme Court, the Fourth, Fifth, Federal, and D.C. Circuits, the ITC, FTC, and PTAB, the Delaware Court of Chancery, and several state appellate and federal district courts.
Before joining Orrick, Tor clerked for Judge Myrna Pérez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced in the appellate group of another global law firm. He is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he won first prize in the Joseph A. Chubb brief-writing competition and shared the Thomas I. Emerson prize for research related to statutory interpretation.