Based in West Virginia, Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe is a law firm reaching countless international clients with offices spread all over the globe. The firm initially started working in 1863, making Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe the oldest law firm of San Francisco which is continuously operating since then. With 23 offices all over the world, it is nourishing more than 1100 lawyers with about 400 attorneys in two of the most prominent offices of the firm within the United States.
Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe has legal expertise in all fields of work; however, they are known the most for their representation in areas like commercial litigation, tax, white collar crime, compensation and benefits, transactional practices, real estate, public finance and many others. Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe has most recently gained recognition by the Human Right’s Campaign of Corporate Equality as the best US firm to treat bisexual, homosexual, and transgender employees with equality. The firm was ranked at the 9th position in the list of “Top 25 law firms to work for” (2007) and at 37th number at the “Top 100 Law Firms” of the United States by Vault in 2009. It also reached up till the A List of the prestigious The American Lawyer.
Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe merged with a number of other law firms during 1863 to 2005, when it ventured into entering the international arena. It opened up offices in Shanghai, Moscow, and Beijing initially and thereon marked off to conquer the other parts of the world. During the process of going international and making it big, Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe used resources from Coudert Brothers and later on merged with Hölters & Elsing. The firm has aced quite a few internationally acknowledged financial intermediaries as their clients. These include Clayon Bank, Union Carbide, Monsanto Company, and Dow ArgoSciences.