2026 L Suite Public Company GC Offsite

Conference | March.09.2026 - March.10.2026

The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay

Orrick is proud to be sponsoring the 2026 L Suite Public Company GC Offsite in Half Moon Bay, a curated event which brings together General Counsels and Chief Legal Officers at public companies to discuss the evolving landscape.

Julia Riechert and Leah Recht will attend, with Julia leading a mainstage session titled “Global Workforce Governance: Works Councils, AI-at-Work, and Onsite Enforcement Readiness” and Leah leading a roundtable titled “Cross-Functional Leadership and Influence”.

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Julia C. Riechert Partner, Employment Law & Litigation, Discriminazione, molestie e ritorsioni

Silicon Valley

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D:+1 650 614 7482
E: [email protected]

Practice:

Employment Law & Litigation
Discriminazione, molestie e ritorsioni
Retribuzione oraria

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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.

Leah Recht Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity

San Francisco

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D:+1 415 773 5651
E: [email protected]

Practice:

Mergers & Acquisitions
Private Equity
Technology & Innovation
Governance aziendale
Technology Companies Group

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Leah Recht Partner

San Francisco

Her experience includes structuring and negotiating various strategic and leveraged acquisitions of public and private targets, divestitures, carveouts, mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, minority and growth investments, restructurings, employment and executive compensation, corporate governance and other general corporate counseling matters.

She advises clients across a wide range of industries, including tech, AI, software, fintech, women’s health, life sciences and healthtech, mobility tech, insurance, consumer and retail, consulting services, education, manufacturing and transportation.

Leah also serves as Board Chair for National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS), the largest nonprofit organization devoted to finding a cure for brain cancer and providing support for patients, survivors, caregivers and their families.

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