Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Mike Delikat, a partner in the New York office, serves as Chair of Orrick's Global Employment Law Practice and previously served as the Managing Director of Orrick's Litigation Division. He represents a broad range of major corporations in all facets of labor and employment law. Mr. Delikat has an active trial, arbitration and appellate practice and handles a number of high-visibility class action and impact cases. Mr. Delikat has extensive experience with issues arising from trade secret misappropriation, wage and hour collective actions and other class actions based on gender and race, with particular expertise representing companies in the financial services industry. He currently has an active practice representing a number of major corporations in the defense of Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistleblower claims brought before the Department of Labor and in the federal courts. He is the author of the first treatise published on this subject (see below in Publications). Mr. Delikat is published and quoted frequently on a variety of employment law issues in major academic and business publications and is a frequent speaker at national programs on these issues.

Areas of Practice

• Employment Law

Bar Admissions

• New York, 1978
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1984
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1978
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1978

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Reporter (Advisory Board Member)
• Lawyers Alliance of New York (Member)
• New York State Bar, Member, Committee on Practice and Procedure Beofre the NLRB (Commercial and Federal Litigation Section)
• New York State Bar (Member, Employment and Labor Relations Committee)
• American Bar Association, Member, Railway and Airline Labor Law Subcommittee (Employment and Labor Law Section)
• College of Labor and Employment Lawyers (Fellow)
• New York University Center for Labor and Employment Law (Board Member)
• UJA/ Federation of Greenwich, CT (Chairman of the Board)
• New York Lawyers Alliance (Former Board Member)
• Orrick’s Management Team

Honors and Awards

• 2007 Leading Employment Lawyer, Chambers USA, cited as "one of the greatest lawyers in the field today - truly one of the superstars" and "an expert on Sarbanes-Oxley whistle-blower claims"
• Recognized by The International Who's Who of Management Labour and Employment Lawyers
• Recognized by The New York Magazine
• The New York Times Top Lawyers
• Ranked in the top 25 of Euromoney's The Best of the Best USA 2007 (Labor and Employment)

Past Employment Positions

• United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, Arbitrator, 1986

Education

• Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977
  J.D.
• Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1974
  B.S.

Published Works

• Explosive Growth of ERISA-Based Severance Pay Litigation, CCH Labor Law Journal, July, 1987
• Protection of Trade Secrets and Confidential Business Information: An Employer's Guide, Personnel Law Update, 1993
• The Americans with Disabilities Act: New Federal Rights for Disabled Employees, Proceedings of New York University Forty-Fifth Annual National Conference on Labor, 1993
• The Legal Dangers in Diversity, The Corporate Board, 1995
• Summary Judgement Motion Practice, PLI, The Sexual Harassment Litigation, 1995
• Author, Corporate Whistleblowing in the Sarbanes-Oxley Era, PLI, 2006

Address

666 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10103-0001

Phones

(212) 506-5230

Faxes

(212) 506-5151

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