Harmann Singh

Harmann is a member of Orrick’s Supreme Court and Appellate group, where he advises and represents leading global companies, nonprofits, and universities in high-stakes constitutional, administrative, intellectual property, and commercial disputes. His practice spans trade secret and patent litigation, challenges to federal and state laws and regulations, and cutting-edge controversies involving artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Harmann also serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a seminar on civil rights and the Supreme Court.

Harmann maintains an active pro bono and public interest practice. He argued and won a precedential case in a federal appeals court on the interpretation of the Violence Against Women Act, securing immigration relief for victims of abuse. He has represented criminal defendants in state appellate courts and served as counsel in a gender equity investigation of the NCAA. His election law experience includes defending Pennsylvania's certification of the 2020 presidential election results at the U.S. Supreme Court and defending the constitutionality of New York's candidate filing deadline in federal court. He was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel—the Commonwealth’s highest civilian honor—for successfully defending the State's public health measures at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Harmann served as a law clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court; Chief Judge Raymond J. Lohier, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; and Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Before law school, he was a Truman-Albright Fellow at the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund. He graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and Columbia University, where he was named a Truman Scholar.