Overview of Orrick's Employment Law & Litigation and Securities Litigation & Regulatory Enforcement Practices

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1 Overview of Orrick's Employment Law & Litigation and Securities Litigation & Regulatory Enforcement Practices

2 EMPLOYMENT LAW AND LITIGATION PRACTICE OVERVIEW Orrick is one of the few full-service firms to have a globally renowned employment law practice. With more than 70 lawyers worldwide, our focus is on representing employers on their most important and complex employment law issues where the quality of advice and the representation we provide makes a difference in outcome. Orrick s global employment lawyers counsel clients on human resources policies, all aspects of employment disputes, severance agreements, discrimination and harassment issues and union and collective bargaining matters. Orrick s lawyers are privileged to serve as strategic employment counsel to many of the most established multinational corporations and emerging new businesses. In addition to seeking advice on various employment law issues, our clients regularly turn to us because of our extensive experience with high-profile litigation matters, such as major EEOC pattern-and-practice litigations, private class actions, wage-and-hour class and collective actions and injunction proceedings. Orrick s lawyers work with clients in-house legal, management and human resources departments to develop a tailored andbusiness-focused approach to meet objectives. We share our clients emphasis on preventive measures to minimize the risk of litigation and onresolving matters costeffectively through alternatives such as mediation and early settlement conferences. Client Service Orrick employment lawyers partner with our clients in-house legal, management and human resources departments in order to ensure our advice is tailored to the considerations that are unique to each client s industry and each client s internal culture. We take the extra time to provide counsel that meets both the business and legal objectives of our clients. Orrick lawyers share our clients emphasis on preventive measures to minimize the risk of litigation and on resolving matters cost-effectively through alternatives such as arbitration and mediation. However, when civil litigation is unavoidable, Orrick s Employment Law and Litigation Group has an unprecedented record of courtroom success. RECENT WINS AWARDS AND RECOGNITION Chambers recognized Orrick in their USA Nationwide, California, and Asia-Pacific publications. We have six lawyers ranked in Chambers USA; and three lawyers ranked in Chambers Asia-Pacific. The American Lawyer named Orrick as a Go-To law firm on their Top 500 Guide to Labor & Employment. The Recorder named Orrick California Labor & Employment Department of the Year. The Legal 500 recognized Orrick for U.S. Labor & Employment Litigation. Orrick was also recognized for its labor and employment practice in Japan and Paris.. Law360 named Orrick an Employment Group of the Year recognized one employment partner as MVP.

3 . Orrick's Employment Law and Litigation Blog Orrick is excited to announce that we have launched our Employment Law and Litigation Blog! The employment blog covers a variety of topics, including wage-and-hour, whistleblower, trade secrets litigation, discrimination, harassment and retaliation matters, including EEO, cross-border employment law issues, ERISA, complex individual cases...and more. Our team of experienced lawyers is posting legal developments that are important to in-house counsel, HR executives and HR personnel. When you visit the blog, you will notice keyword search capabilities, links to hot topics and an archive arranged by categories allowing for easy navigation. Our blog also allows readers to subscribe to RSS feeds, so you can receive updates every time we add something new to the blog. Clients will continue to receive employment law client alerts, newsletters and invitations. Orrick's new Employment Law and Litigation Blog allows us to keep you one step ahead of the ever-changing legal landscape. If you or any of your colleagues need additional information about the topics covered or related issues, or need any assistance on these matters, please contact our Global Employment Law and Litigation attorneys in the following cities: Mike Delikat, Practice Leader Arno Frings Dusseldorf Joseph Liburt Yumiko Ohta Tokyo Gary Siniscalco Olga Anisimova Moscow Patricia Gillette Andrew Livingston Jessica Perry Julie Totten Sacramento/ Elizabeth Cole Shanghai Christine Guillot- Bouhours Paris Timothy Long Sacramento/ Los Angeles Jill Rosenberg Michael Weil Erin Connell Lynne Hermle James McQuade Robert Shwarts Nicola Whiteley London

4 Securities Litigation & Regulatory Enforcement OUR PRACTICE 12 dedicated partners and over 50 lawyers who practice exclusively in the field, with the tenure of the firm s current roster of securities litigators stretching back over 40 years Currently ranked by Chambers 2013 nationally in California and Washington State, with its notable leading partners ranked in Bands 2 and 3 Represented clients in 43 states and in more than 350 matters Orrick s Securities Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement blog boasts a strong readership and citations by The Wall Street Journal and other national business publications REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS Accolade Chesapeake Energy Corporation Credit Suisse Securities (USA) Deckers Outdoors Company Harding Advisory, Inc. Ernst & Young KPMG NVIDIA Corporation Oracle Corporation Synopsys, Inc. Authored the Orrick Guide to Securities Litigation, an innovative ebook with classic cases and recent developments in securities litigation law RECENT RESULTS Chesapeake Energy Corporation In its response to a multi-pronged legal assault, Chesapeake s Board of Directors relied upon Orrick s consultation and advice, and over a year later, Orrick s guidance enabled the Board to (i) successfully manage the array of shareholder demands, and (ii) achieve dismissal of the securities class action and multiple shareholder derivative suits, all of which were dismissed prior to discovery. Credit Suisse The Orrick team secured a victory in the Ninth Circuit for Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley in a precedent-setting case that has raised the pleading bar in Section 11 cases based on secondary offerings. The decision, In re Century Aluminum Company Securities Litigation, is the first to apply the Supreme Court s nonsecurities decisions in Twombly and Iqbal to a Section 11 claim outside an IPO and was reported in the Am Law Litigation Daily and Law360. NVIDIA Orrick secured dismissal of a class action, Granfield v. NVIDIA Corp., negotiated a favorable settlement of all other cases, and in a decision (In re NVIDIA GPU Litigation) defeated efforts to overturn the settlement on appeal. The settlement was unprecedented in that it required NVIDIA to negotiate complex agreements with each of the OEMs that manufactured the computers purchased by plaintiffs, and to resolve a plethora of logistical issues in providing repair, replacement and reimbursement remedies to a multitude of plaintiffs who purchased their computers from third parties. Oracle Orrick won a significant victory for Oracle in connection with Oracle s $1.4 billion merger with RightNow Technology, a U.S. software company that develops customer relationship management (CRM) software for enterprise organizations. Plaintiffs consolidated their litigation in Montana, a state whose courts have little experience dealing with merger litigation. In fact, prior to the case, no Montana court had ever handled a public company merger case, much less one involving a $1.4 billion deal. Orrick s work on the Oracle- RightNow litigation was the latest in a long string of Orrick engagements for Oracle in the area of securities, SEC and merger litigation.

5 NEW RELEASE 2nd edition of Corporate Whistleblowing in the Sarbanes-Oxley / Dodd-Frank Era Co-authored by: Mike Delikat and Renee Phillips This new version of the only treatise published on corporate whistleblowing provides an in depth analysis of ten years of law under Sarbanes-Oxley and a complete summary and analysis of the new whistleblower incentives and protections under Dodd-Frank. It also contains practical advice for compliance and internal investigations. It is a must have for all public companies and their counsel. Michael Delikat Global Employment Law Practice Leader Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP office (212) mdelikat@orrick.com Renee Phillips Global Employment Law Senior Associate Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP office (212) rphillips@orrick.com Available now at: (25% discount available) and