Michael Delikat, a partner in the New York office, was previously the Chair of Orrick's Global Employment Law Practice for over twenty years, with employment law teams in the European Union, Asia as well as the United States. Under Mike's leadership, Orrick’s Employment Law & Litigation group received multiple awards as a top employment law practice group including from such publications as Law 360.

Chambers USA and Chambers Global have ranked Mike in Band 1 since they began publishing its rankings, noting he is a "giant of the employment bar, widely regard as an expert in whistleblowing matters and sex harassment claims", "sought out by premier clients to handle high-stakes employment litigation and investigations," and "a very persuasive advocate who knows the law inside out and is able to get to the heart of the issue very quickly." Mike was inducted into the Lawdragon Hall of Fame in 2022, which recognizes the “nation’s greatest corporate litigators” among leading lawyers. He is the outgoing management chair of the ABA International Employment Law Committee.

Mike is the founder of the firm’s Whistleblower Task Force. In addition to handling a broad array of high-stakes employment litigation, he currently has an active practice representing a number of major corporations in the defense of Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other whistleblower claims. Mike is regularly retained by boards of directors and audit committees to conduct high exposure internal investigations of corporate wrongdoing. He also is an Advisory Board Member of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance.

Mike is the co-author of the only extensive treatise on whistleblowing and internal investigations published by PLI, Corporate Whistleblowing in the Sarbanes-Oxley/Dodd-Frank Era.