Since corporate partner Mitchell Zuklie succeeded longtime Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe chair Ralph Baxter on March 31, 2013, the 916-lawyer San Francisco-based firm has posted three years of revenue growth. Zuklie, 47, has had a busy start to 2016, hiring 42 lawyers to staff Orrick’s brand-new Houston office in February, as well as others across the firm.
During an hour-long visit last week, we asked Zuklie, dressed in his typical no-frills shirtsleeves, to describe some of the changes under his watch. There have been many, including a new strategic focus; tweaks to the compensation system; and a big increase in the number of women in management, to name a few.
