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Practice:

  • Contentieux complexes & Résolution des litiges

Chris Ricigliano Managing Associate

Washington, D.C.

Chris is experienced in handling all aspects of litigation for clients of all sizes and across subject matters. He has worked to initiate litigation, managed ESI collections and discovery disputes, prepared cases for trial and worked on teams trying bench and jury trials to completion. Chris is committed to serving clients however necessary to meet their dispute resolution needs, including by resolving disputes outside of court. 

Daniel Rico Managing Associate

Miami

His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and securities transactions. He also counsels clients on corporate governance.

462977

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group
  • Gouvernance d'entreprise
  • Amérique latine

José Rico Senior Associate

Santa Monica

José counsels high-growth companies on corporate governance, venture financings, and strategic transactions. He regularly advises on cross-border matters, with particular depth in Latin America, and works across industries including consumer internet, software, fintech, blockchain, edtech and healthtech.

In addition to representing companies, José advises leading venture capital firms and other investors on their investments in early and high-growth businesses. His work emphasizes clear, business-focused solutions to help clients move quickly and effectively.

434686

Practice:

  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Durée du travail
  • Trade Secrets Litigation
  • Procès
  • Technology & Innovation

Melinda S. Riechert Partner

Silicon Valley

In addition to her litigation and arbitration practice, Melinda counsels clients on litigation avoidance strategies and on California’s complex employment laws.

She is a fellow of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Chambers USA has named Melinda one of the leading U.S. lawyers for employment law since 2007, noting her “straightforward courtroom style which endears her to juries.” She is consistently named as one of the top labor and employment lawyers and top women litigators in California. Melinda is a frequent speaker on employment law topics.

740

Practice:

  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation
  • Durée du travail

Julia C. Riechert Partner

Silicon Valley

Julia helps companies navigate and resolve challenging workplace issues and has extensive experience in:

  • Litigating and defeating harassment, discrimination, equal pay, disability and retaliation claims, including #MeToo and whistleblower allegations.
  • Successfully resolving pre-litigation disputes and employment claims.
  • The gig economy, independent contractor classification and agency temps, including the ABC test and California's Prop 22. 
  • Wage & hour class and PAGA actions, including defeating class certification for technology and retail companies.
  • Arbitration agreements, employment policies, anti-harassment training and workplace compliance best practices.
  • Defending companies against government charges and audits, including unemployment insurance matters.
  • Employee complaints, workplace investigations, layoffs and employment terminations.
  • Providing advice and counsel on a wide variety of employment issues for small, medium and large companies.

Julia's clients include Lyft, PayPal, Airbnb, Instacart, Visa, Cisco, TaskRabbit, Beyond Meat, Unity Technologies, Williams-Sonoma, Inc., Dropbox and Gensler. Julia and her Orrick partner Lynne Hermle won the 2017 California Lawyer of the Year award in Labor and Employment from California Lawyer for their defense verdict for SpaceX in a high profile sex harassment, discrimination, retaliation and disability case. The Daily Journal also named their two jury trial wins for SpaceX as top verdicts in 2016 and 2017, both affirmed on appeal. Orrick was named Employment Group of the Year in 2018, 2019 and 2020 by Law360 and The Recorder has named Orrick the "Litigation Department of the Year: Labor and Employment" in California four times.

Side note: Julia also loves animal rescue and drinks lots of coffee.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Technology Companies Group

Stefan Riedl Senior Associate

Munich

Prior to joining Orrick, Stefan worked in another international law firm in Munich as well as in Charlotte, NC.

Practice:

  • Contentieux complexes & Résolution des litiges
  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution

Kevin Riehle Senior Associate

Dusseldorf

His focus is on contractual disputes in the energy, infrastructure, and technology sectors, where his clients benefit from his experience in high-volume arbitration proceedings. In addition, Kevin is well-versed in legal disputes in the supply industry, the iron and steel industry, and investment arbitration.

In the field of arbitration, he handles proceedings under all relevant arbitration rules, including DIS, ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, and AAA.

Before joining Orrick, Kevin deepened his specialized knowledge in litigation and conflict resolution through by working for three other leading international law firms in Germany and internationally.

Nicole Ries Fox Counsel

Orange County

Nicole is an experienced trial attorney and appellate advocate who has represented private and public entities on appeal and in high impact litigation in federal and state courts. She has a track record of providing clients with thoughtful guidance, effective writing, and strategic representation on complex and high profile matters at all stages of litigation, including in the United States Supreme Court. 

Prior to joining Orrick, Nicole served as a Bristow Fellow in the United States Office of the Solicitor General, and worked as a trial and appellate litigator for several leading national law firms, She has also served as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of California, where she represented the United States as the lead attorney in over 70 criminal appeals.  

Nicole received her J.D. from U.C. Berkeley School of Law, where she received the Thelen Marin Prize for Academic Achievement. She clerked for Judge William A. Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Practice:

  • Propriété intellectuelle

Lindsay Rindskopf Senior Associate

New York

Lindsay has experience with trade dress and trademark litigation in federal district courts, trademark proceedings before the International Trade Commission, and cancellation and opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She also has extensive experience with copyright litigation before the federal district courts, trademark prosecution and clearance, domain name monitoring, and Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) matters.

Prior to joining Orrick, Lindsay attended Columbia Law School where she participated as a student editor for the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts.

 

464003

Practice:

  • Antitrust and Competition

Eric Rivas Senior Associate

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:

  • Price fixing (including claims involving algorithmic pricing software)
  • Information exchanges
  • Monopolization
  • Exclusive dealing
  • Vertical distribution
  • Noncompetes
  • Resale price maintenance
  • Group boycotts
  • Mergers & acquisitions

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.

740

Practice:

  • Investigations internationales et mesures d'application
  • Investigations internes
  • Contentieux complexes & Résolution des litiges

Adam Rizzo Partner

Londres

Adam is a disputes lawyer with a focus on high-stakes litigation and regulatory enforcement. He handles commercial disputes, internal investigations and regulatory enforcement matters. 

Adam has acted on disputes for a wide range of commercial clients including financial institutions, professional services firms, shipping, energy and technology companies. He has pursued and defended claims (including in arbitration) for clients for breach of contract, misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duties, negligence, breach of warranty, breach of confidence and fraud. Adam's cases are international in nature and often arise in an insolvency context in which he regularly assists clients with bringing and defending interim applications, and launching recovery and enforcement actions. 

Adam also conducts internal investigations for companies and boards of directors and has represented companies, firms and individuals in regulatory inquiries and enforcement actions including those brought by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the Insolvency Service and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).  Adam has particular expertise in dealing with internal investigations and regulatory matters which relate to financial reporting, but has also acted in matters in the fintech, invoice finance and asset-based lending sectors. As part of his wider regulatory practice, Adam advises clients on the UK financial sanctions and export controls regime. 

Recognised by Legal 500 as a recommended individual, Adam is described as “efficient and highly personable... excellent at running cases on a day-to-day basis”.