We’re a Vault Top 5 Best Place to Work!

June.27.2017

Orrick’s associates voted us a top 5 Best Law Firm to Work For and a top 5 Summer Program in the Vault 2018 Law Firm Associate Survey. They rate the firm Top 10 across all 5 of Vault’s metrics related to Diversity and Inclusion.

In addition, across 16 of the 17 quality of life metrics Vault measures, Orrick ranks in the Top 10 nationally. This includes categories such as firm culture, partner/associate relations, formal and informal training and mentoring, pro bono and transparency, among others.

“The Vault rankings are incredibly important to us. These results tell us we’re making progress toward our goal of being the best at attracting, retaining, and hopefully, inspiring the highest quality talent,” said Orrick Chairman Mitch Zuklie. “We believe that innovating on talent is going to be absolutely critical to long-term success in the law firm market.”

“Over the past year, we’ve being focused on three areas that are important to associates: ensuring they have meaningful responsibility early in their careers, enhancing our training and mentoring programs; and being a leader on Agile Working options that give associates flexibility in when and how they work,” said Siobhan Handley, Orrick’s Chief Talent Officer. “The Vault results affirm that we are innovating in ways that are making a difference for our associates, and we are grateful for their feedback.”

Earlier this year, Fortune named Orrick one of the top 100 Best Companies to Work For the second time, and named us the only law firm on the Fortune 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials list.

Orrick’s complete 2018 Vault rankings can be viewed here.

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Mitchell Zuklie Orrick Chairman, Technology Companies Group, Mergers & Acquisitions

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Mitchell Zuklie Orrick Chairman

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Under Mitch’s leadership, the firm has pursued a strategy to be a leading advisor globally to three sectors: Technology & Innovation, Energy & Infrastructure and Finance. He has led the firm’s portfolio approach to digitization, including the transformation of its West Virginia operation into a center for analytics and innovation, the launch of Orrick Labs to develop customized technologies and platforms, and partnerships with market leaders. Financial Times has chosen Orrick as the Most Innovative Law Firm in North America three times in the past five years, first runner-up twice and the Most Digital Law Firm of 2020. Mitch has also led the firm’s focus on talent retention and efforts to create a more inclusive workplace. Fortune has selected the firm among the 100 Best Companies to Work For five years in a row.

He serves on the Boards of Fisker Inc., the Leadership Council for Legal Diversity, the Berkeley Center for Law and Business, the Silicon Valley Law Foundation and the Advisory Boards of the Stanford Law School Center on the Legal Profession and the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. Mitch is also a Trustee of Bowdoin College, Chairman of the Board of the Wild Salmon Center and a Director of CalTrout.

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Siobhan Handley Chief Talent Officer

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Siobhan Handley Chief Talent Officer

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In collaboration with the firm’s leadership team, she focuses on designing and implementing programs to recruit, inspire and advance the best legal and staff talent.

Siobhan previously served as Orrick’s Managing Director for Resources. In that role, she spearheaded the development of the firm’s innovative talent model—the first of its kind in a major law firm—which replaces the traditional associate lockstep advancement system with merit-based advancement. As chair of the firm’s Talent Committee, she oversees Orrick’s lawyer training and performance feedback program – which is one of the most rigorous in the market. She also has led the creation of a range of new lawyer and professional staff roles.

Siobhan brings to this role extensive experience on the front line of client service, having been a partner in the firm’s product liability litigation and mass tort defense group. For more than a decade, she was a member of the Orrick team that acted as National Counsel to Union Carbide Corporation in connection with asbestos-related personal injury lawsuits and served as lead trial counsel in cases across the country. Siobhan was one of the key trial counsel in the highly-publicized landmark trial in Texas State Court, Brazoria County, where Kelly-Moore Paint Company sued Union Carbide for $1.4 billion in compensatory damages and $4.2 billion in punitive damages that resulted in a complete defense verdict. In addition, she served as trial counsel for significant product liability cases for other clients including Wyeth and Flexible Products.