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<br> 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.   
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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 and the enforcement of post-employment restrictions, 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 is also called upon by a number of major corporations to handle high exposure internal investigations. 
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He currently has an active practice representing a number of major corporations in the defense of Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other whistleblower claims and is the author of the first treatise published on this subject (see below in Publications).