Washington, D.C.
Brad’s practice includes performing case investigations, developing successful case themes, strategies, and defenses and preparing and defending key witnesses. He has significant experience managing complex litigation, handling pre-trial motions, including overseeing successful summary judgment and motion to dismiss briefings, taking and defending critical fact and expert depositions and managing complex and cross-border e-discovery matters.
In the past few years, he has been involved in a number of cutting-edge cases in the FCPA arena spanning a variety of industries, including financial services, gaming, telecommunications and commodities trading.
Prior to joining Orrick, Brad was a partner at Buckley LLP. From 1999 to 2002, Brad covered Navy football and men’s college lacrosse as a reporter for the Washington Times.
Dusseldorf
Carsten advises on all sorts of German tax and accounting issues arising for industry clients, financial institutions and private equity funds. Mainly focusing on corporate and real estate transactions and restructurings. He also advises and represents clients with respect to tax field audits and in tax litigation against the fiscal administration and before German fiscal and civil courts. Prior to joining Orrick Carsten completed his legal traineeship in both national and international law firms.
Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)
Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)
Necia’s employment law practice focuses on federal court discrimination litigation, as well as complex litigation and class actions, including pay equity claims, wage and hour disputes, and OFCCP administrative claims. She handles cases from inception through to appellate briefing and strategy, and assists companies with a variety of compliance-related challenges including internal investigations, pay equity analyses, and government investigations and audits.
Prior to joining Orrick, Necia handled all aspects of general litigation cases at another global law firm including acting as lead counsel in approximately 50 cases in federal, state and administrative courts.
Additionally, Ms. Hobbes served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable D. Michael Fisher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and obtained a graduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy & Management. She previously consulted with the Office of High School Reform for the Pittsburgh Public Schools, served as a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs with the Coro Center for Civil Leadership in Pittsburgh, PA, and worked as a project manager and writer at a market research firm.
Ms. Hobbes is dedicated to pro bono and community service, and has volunteered advising non-profit organizations through employment law challenges related to COVID-19, developing resources on international anti-trafficking laws, and litigating immigration cases assisting refugee children fleeing violence in Central America, civil cases helping prisoners pursue their constitutional rights, and state court petitions for transgender legal name changes. She has volunteered in the past with women’s rights and immigration advocacy organizations, and teaching English in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Los Angeles
John represents clients in complex litigation matters in both federal and state courts. In the span of less than 10 months across 2022 and 2023, John was a member of the team on three separate high-profile jury trial wins for the NCAA - including the first to take on claims the NCAA is responsible for concussions and CTE in college football. With significant experience in high-stakes litigation matters, John litigates cases on behalf of technology companies, sports associations, investment firms, retailers, colleges and universities, and individuals. John is also active in pro bono matters, primarily focusing his practice on representing veterans before the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
Boston; New York
Tech and consumer-facing clients – from early-stage startups to some of the most recognizable online companies – turn to Caroline to protect their IP, brand, and reputation in litigation. Her expertise includes the fast-evolving areas of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and online safety, cybersecurity & data privacy litigation. In the past year, she has litigated more than 60 cases related to platform immunity and she is currently lead counsel in dozens of cases for one of the world's largest tech companies on claims challenging myriad aspects of its online services, including content moderation and product design.
A partner to her clients in crisis management, Caroline also advises them in cyber incident response, government and internal investigations and enforcement actions. Her experience at the intersection of online safety, IP and white-collar litigation gives her breadth of perspective and allows her to work with her clients to problem-solve and effectively manage enterprise risk. Clients appreciate Caroline's ability to collaborate with witnesses, company stakeholders and factfinders – both inside and outside the courtroom – to achieve meaningful results.
Caroline maintains an active pro bono practice, representing clients in Hague proceedings as well as children and refugees in asylum proceedings in conjunction with the Political Asylum / Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project. She has drafted amicus briefs in cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals in the areas of technology, criminal justice, and reproductive rights.
San Francisco
Scott was an associate at the firm from 1998 until 2006 and has experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, securities law and general corporate matters.
Prior to joining Orrick, he was an associate at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP from 1997 to 1998.
Santa Monica; Chicago; San Francisco
Santa Monica; Chicago; San Francisco
In addition, Fredrick has represented corporate and individual clients in a wide array of national and transnational commercial disputes involving contract enforcement, corporate governance, debt collection, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and securities. He also has an active appellate practice and has briefed and argued numerous cases in federal and state courts throughout the U.S.
Fredrick is a frequent author and lecturer on litigation and compliance issues regarding the consumer financial services industry, including on topics such as federal preemption under the Dodd-Frank Act, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) mortgage servicing rules, the CFPB’s proposed arbitration rule, residential mortgage backed securities litigation, management of multi-jurisdictional litigation, enforcement of jury trial waivers and the use of American discovery in support of foreign litigation and damages measurement.
Prior to joining Orrick, Fredrick was a partner at Buckley LLP. He is co-located in the firm’s Chicago office and practices regularly in Illinois and Michigan.
Londres
Róisín works with fast-growing startups and established technology companies to navigate complex legal frameworks.
She has a particular focus on AI governance, complex outsourcings, technology contracts and digital platform compliance with the EU’s new technology regulations.
Prior to joining Orrick, Róisín held roles at a top-tier Irish law firm where she developed a deep understanding of the intersection between law, technology and business strategy.
Orange County
Orange County
Eric draws on significant experience in a broad range of matters across the artificial intelligence, pharmaceutical, retail and hospitality spaces to help clients resolve disputes in high-exposure, complex antitrust and unfair competition litigation and class actions.
His experience spans claims involving:
Eric regularly resolves litigation at the motion to dismiss and summary judgment phases. His advocacy spans matters in both the class action and business-to-business contexts. Eric also helps clients navigate civil and criminal investigations brought by the DOJ, the FTC and state attorneys general.
Eric is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section and the California Lawyer’s Association’s Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section. He maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing clients in section 1983 matters and immigration removal petitions.
Before joining Orrick, Eric served as a law clerk to Judge Michael M. Anello of the US District Court for the Southern District of Southern California. During law school, he was a judicial extern to Magistrate Judge Jan M. Adler of the Southern District of California, a law clerk in the Criminal Division of the California Attorney General’s Office, and a law clerk for the US DOJ’s Civil Division.
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Her practice focuses on the compensation and benefit issues of technology companies.
She advises on the design, administration and implementation of executive and equity compensation arrangements, including equity plans, retention plans, change of control and severance arrangements and executive employment and separation agreements.
She represents clients during the life cycle of corporate transactions: financings, mergers and acquisitions, secondary offerings, SPAC transactions and the preparation for public listing.
She has particular interest in implementing equity and executive compensation arrangements for global subsidiaries and service providers.
New York
Rachel represents clients in high-stakes, complex litigation. She has argued successfully in federal and state appellate courts and has been the lead drafter of briefs and dispositive motions in both state and federal court and the U.S. Supreme Court. Rachel’s experience litigating and advising clients covers a wide range of substantive areas. She focuses in particular on tough questions of constitutional law, statutory interpretation, and intellectual property. Rachel also maintains an active pro bono practice.
Prior to joining Orrick, Rachel served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Cornelia T.L. Pillard of the D.C. Circuit, and Judge William A. Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit. Rachel received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as a student director of the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic and as Essays Editor of the Yale Law Journal. She graduated from Williams College and received master’s degrees from University College London and University of St. Andrews, which she attended as a Marshall Scholar.
Washington, D.C.
Prior to joining Orrick, Jackson was an associate at Buckley LLP.