San Francisco
Todd regularly advises companies and their boards on corporate governance best practices and fiduciary and disclosure duties, and has extensive experience in responding to shareholder litigation demands and other shareholder activism.
Before joining the firm, Todd was an associate at the San Francisco office of Clifford Chance US LLP. In his spare time, Todd is a musician, screenwriter and father to three fantastic kids.
San Francisco
John advises issuers, borrowers and underwriters on financings for higher education, solid waste disposal (including waste-to-energy facilities), and utilities (including water, wastewater and energy facilities). He actively advises clients in such financings on a national basis, including in California, Hawaii, Guam, Nevada and Texas.
John has been recognized as a leading lawyer by multiple organizations, including as a Chambers USA, Band 2 attorney for California Public Finance, and as one of California's top 50 development lawyers by The Daily Journal.
San Francisco; Santa Monica
San Francisco; Santa Monica
Anik has represented leading tech companies across industries ranging from enterprise software and AI to fintech, energy tech, mental health and others, including Betterment, Confluent, Convoy, Fireworks, HashiCorp, Inspire Energy, Mux, Pinterest, Sourcegraph and Two Chairs. Selected clients that Anik has advised from the earliest stages through acquisition include Connectifier (sold to LinkedIn), Cove (sold to Dropbox), Expanse (sold to Palo Alto Networks), Nest (sold to Google) and Yammer (sold to Microsoft).
More recently, Anik has followed his clients’ example and is focused on applying technological innovation to legal work and client service. Beyond his home office in San Francisco, Anik helped open Orrick’s Santa Monica office as well as a workspace in Oakland to better serve clients located in the East Bay.
A native Ohioan and former New Yorker, Anik lives with his family in Berkeley.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Erin's practice focuses on water, wastewater, public power, solid waste, airport and port financings, primarily in California and the territory of Guam. In addition, Erin has experience working on complex public-private-partnership (P3) transactions.
Erin also serves on the Board of Directors of the Asian Americans in Public Finance.
San Francisco
Michelle’s dedication to these cutting-edge areas of the law and technology over the past 20 years has earned her recognition from Chambers for Privacy & Data Security Litigation and as an up-and-coming lawyer in Privacy & Data generally – where she is described as “equally capable in both compliance and enforcement elements of privacy regulation.”
As a litigator, Michelle is adept at developing novel legal arguments to protect clients in a world where innovation is outpacing regulation. She brings deep experience representing companies in regulatory investigations, data breach and privacy litigation involving the increasing web of statutes that pose statutory damages exposure to companies, such as the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA), the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and other complex commercial claims. As a crisis manager, she also represents companies in incident response and enjoys working with diverse groups of stakeholders to mitigate business and reputational risks and achieve positive outcomes.
Michelle resides in California with her three children.
San Francisco
Ibrahim Hinds is an Associate in the Intellectual Property Group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, based in the San Francisco office. His practice focuses on intellectual property disputes in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, patent disputes before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and cases before the International Trade Commission (ITC). While completing his degree at UC Berkeley, he hosted podcasts for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, exploring global developments at the intersection of technology and law.
Before joining Orrick, Ibrahim interned at Microsoft in the CELA Intellectual Property group, where he worked on patent portfolio strategy, IP litigation and prosecution, and privacy. He also gained extensive experience as a Transportation Engineer at Arcadis and the Florida Department of Transportation, managing major infrastructure projects, including those focused on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies. His technical expertise spans multiple industries, including consumer electronics, telecommunications, transportation systems, green building, renewable energy, privacy regulation, artificial intelligence, and cloud networks.
Prior to law school, Ibrahim served as the Florida State Representative for Engineers Without Borders, coordinating international infrastructure development projects to empower communities. At Orrick, his pro bono work extends to immigration rights, climate change research for the UN, global peacebuilding policy research and veterans rights.
Ultimately, Ibrahim is passionate about helping companies protect their intellectual property and achieve their business goals.
San Francisco
Clients count on J.P.’s versatility to guide them through all types of employment litigation ranging from thorny single-plaintiff disputes to large-scale class and representative actions. J.P.’s strategic mindset draws from his experience across all phases of litigation in state and federal courts, arbitration, and before government agencies. His experience spans a breadth of issues including those related to wage-and-hour laws, the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), trade secret theft, restrictive covenants, contract disputes, pay equity, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, disability accommodation, leaves of absence, and wrongful termination.
Additionally, J.P. regularly counsels employers on best practices to meet their business goals in a way that minimizes legal risk. He partners with clients to address employment issues such as wage-and-hour compliance, high-risk personnel decisions, mass workforce changes, the development of compliant policies, the drafting of complex employment agreements, and recent changes in employment laws.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Simon has experience representing clients in a broad range of commercial litigation disputes. He has assisted in defense of contract, trade secret, business torts, and WARN Act employment claims in mediation, arbitration, and in state and federal courts.
Prior to joining Orrick, Simon worked as a litigation associate in Kirkland & Ellis' San Francisco office. He received his J.D. from Emory University School of Law. While in law school, Simon served as a managing editor of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal.
San Francisco
Erin's practice covers all aspects of employment law. She defends employers in class actions and other complex cases, as well as in systemic investigations and audits by the EEOC, DOJ, and the California CRD. Erin has led dozens of internal pay equity analyses and is a trusted advisor for several of the nation's most prominent employers on developing areas of employment law, including pay equity and pay transparency, DEI best practices, and the use of AI in employment decision making.
Erin also is an accomplished first chair trial lawyer. She has tried several cases before juries and in arbitration, and has obtained numerous defense summary judgment rulings and other favorable resolutions in state and federal court. Erin led the trial team that obtained a complete dismissal for Oracle in OFCCP v. Oracle, the largest pay equity case ever brought by the US Department of Labor, which garnered national media attention and earned Erin recognition as a "Litigator of the Week" by the American Lawyer and a 2021 Employment MVP by Law360. As lead counsel, Erin also successfully obtained decertification in a statewide California pay equity class action, Jewett v. Oracle.
Erin's clients include leading technology and Fortune 500 companies, including: Oracle, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, Pinterest, Workday, PayPal, Sony Interactive Entertainment, NVIDIA, Airbnb, SiriusXM, Dropbox, Zendesk, Splunk and Goldman Sachs.
Erin frequently speaks on California and national employment law issues. She is currently a Council Member with the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section (LEL) and is the Conference Chair for the American Employment Legal Council (AELC). She is also a faculty member with the Institute for Workplace Equality (IWE), and formerly served as the management chair of the ABA Equal Employment Opportunity Committee. Erin also previously served on the Board of Directors for the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF), as well as BASF’s Justice & Diversity Center (JDC). She has published numerous articles and papers on employment law issues in publications around the country. She also provides employment law training and conducts internal investigations on employment-related matters.
San Francisco
Annette is an experienced trial lawyer who has tried copyright, trade secret, trademark, patent and business tort claims. As a risk analyst and problem solver with deep proficiency in the software industry, Annette is a go-to counselor and speaker regarding the legal issues surrounding access and use of datasets in the development of machine learning algorithms. She was named “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer for her work as co-lead counsel on the Mattel/MGA case. Chambers USA ranks her in Band 1 for Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets, with clients reporting that she is “smart, creative and terrific at oral argument” and “a very well-known authority in copyright law, a great advocate and a great trial lawyer.” Chambers reports: “Clients agree that Annette Hurst is ‘a very powerful and experienced trial lawyer for copyright cases, and a good team leader who is reliable before judges,” and “Peers consider Annette Hurst a ‘remarkably intuitive’ lawyer who ‘brings unique perspectives to soft IP cases.” Since 2018, The Legal 500 has recognized Annette as a “Leading Lawyer” in copyright law, and she was named “Female Litigator of the Year West” by Benchmark Litigation in 2013. Annette has been repeatedly named one of the top 75 IP litigators in California by The Daily Journal.
Annette’s community and professional activities include past service on the Northern District of California Patent Local Rules Committee, President of the Lafayette Elementary School PTA, and past membership on the Board of Directors of the Volunteer Legal Services Program and Board of Directors of the Bar Association of San Francisco for which she was chair of the Finance and Investments Committee. She also is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco and the Board of Governors of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Northern California Chapter, as well as a past president of the Barristers Club.
San Francisco
Eric helps clients design and build successful renewable energy businesses by advising on how projects and portfolios large and small can maximize their value through well-informed negotiation, efficient diligence and acquisition techniques, and responsive and creative problem solving.
Eric has particularly deep knowledge in helping developers strategically procure the equipment and services necessary to develop, construct, commission, operate and sell renewable energy projects of all sizes, and in helping investors evaluate the development work of potential investments. Development and procurement managers excel at sourcing and pricing a project’s needs, and Eric can build on this by bringing these contracts to completion with deep market knowledge, in a way best suited to the client’s commercial objectives and so that they withstand the scrutiny of project investors, lenders and buyers. Eric balances work for utility-scale projects with the growing distributed energy generation and storage sector, both of which recently include negotiation of contracts to “safe harbor” equipment or construction activities to preserve higher levels of ITC or PTC. He has represented energy project developers, equipment suppliers and installers, publicly-owned utilities, private equity investors and other parties in developing energy projects from very early stages of securing technology and land/resource rights to buying and selling operating assets, and everything in between.
San Francisco
Her experience spans projects across the United States and Canada and includes award-winning transactions. She is recognized nationally as Chambers USA Band 2 for Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional (2025) and as a Leading Lawyer: Energy-Renewable/Alternative Power by Legal 500. Clients describe her main qualities as "responsiveness, thoroughness and her understanding of the market" and as "bringing such experience to deals, it's very hard to fault her on anything." She "knows where the market is and makes strong deal points."
Kristin is a key member of Orrick's energy transition practice, which was recognized as Band 1 in Energy Transition by Chambers USA (2025). She also serves on Orrick's Board.