Cyber, Privacy, and Data Innovation Litigation Counsel

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; California; On-site; USD 350,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Mental well-being programs

Care benefits (family, elder, pet)

Job summary

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP seeks a litigation associate with 12+ years of civil litigation experience to support a busy Cyber, Privacy, and Data Innovation team. The role involves handling a robust pipeline of complex disputes, including class actions, across multiple industry verticals.

Ideal candidates will have strong academic credentials, excellent research, and superb writing and oral communication skills.

Qualifications

• Requires strong academic credentials and exceptional legal research/writing abilities.
• Extensive civil litigation experience, including complex disputes and discovery.

Responsibilities

• Manage discovery with Orrick’s eDiscovery and Litigation Support team.
• Assist in depositions, hearings, motion drafting, and mediation statements.

Skills

Civil litigation

Cyber/privacy litigation

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a litigation associate with 12+ years of litigation experience to join our busy, cutting-edge Cyber, Privacy, and Data Innovation team. Responsibilities include working on our robust pipeline of sophisticated, innovative, and industry-leading litigation, including class actions, across a range of clients in Orrick’s industry verticals of technology, finance, life sciences, and energy.

Responsibilities

The ideal candidate should have a strong foundation of complex civil litigation experience, and be a passionate, highly motivated, dynamic individual with exceptional interpersonal skills -- and above all a team player with the ability to work independently. Specific cyber/data/privacy litigation experience is highly valued.

The candidate must possess strong academic credentials, excellent legal research abilities, and superb writing and oral communication skills. This position offers the candidate the opportunity to support a busy team with all aspects of complex disputes and litigation, including working directly with clients. The successful candidate will help manage all aspects of discovery (with the support of Orrick’s industry-leading eDiscovery, Analytics, and Litigation Support team) and will be actively involved in deposition and hearing preparation, motion drafting, mediation statements, and other common civil litigation tasks. Membership to the State Bar of the desired office is required.

Why Orrick

At our core, we value collegiality among our lawyers and strive to make our practices both professionally and personally rewarding. We’ll help you to connect with peers and mentors to ensure you are integrated into our client teams. Our top‑notch training and mentoring programs, retreats and academies, and shadowing opportunities are what set us apart. If you are passionate about innovative work in a dynamic environment, you’re just who we’ve been looking for.

Compensation and Benefits

The expected salary range for this position is between $350,000 and $450,000, depending on experience and bonus eligible hours expectations which are between 1,500 and 1,700 hours.

Orrick is committed to providing a comprehensive, competitive, and thoughtful total compensation package to our attorneys and staff, wherever they work. This compensation and benefits information is based on the Orrick’s estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job‑related factors that may include, but not limited to, qualifications, relevant experience or education, particular skills or expertise, geography. Other compensation may include an annual discretionary merit bonus, which would be determined by Firm and individual performance.

• We offer a full range of elective health benefits including medical, dental, vision and life
• robust mental well‑being programs
• child, family, elder, and pet care benefits
• short‑and‑long‑term disability and industry leading parental leave benefits
• health savings account contributions (w/applicable medical plan)
• flexible spending accounts
• a 401K program
• This role will receive compensated time off through our Flexible Time Off program and paid holidays

Orrick accepts applications for this position on an ongoing basis, until filled.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Consistent with the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, an arrest and conviction record will not automatically disqualify a qualified applicant from consideration for employment. For attorney positions, a ‘qualified applicant’ is an individual who is a member of the State Bar of California, admitted in good standing, and is eligible to practice; or whose admission to the State Bar of California and eligibility to practice remains subject only to successful completion of the California Bar Examination.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

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