Ms. Ochs-Tillotson works in the San Francisco office of Ogletree Deakins, where she is a Shareholder.  She has 16 years of experience as a civil litigator, with an emphasis on the defense of employment-related claims in federal and state trial and appellate courts and administrative agencies.  Ms. Ochs-Tillotson’s experience includes successfully defending employers in both jury and bench trials and in arbitration proceedings. In addition to her active labor and employment litigation practice, Ms. Ochs-Tillotson has litigated a range of business disputes including contract, defamation, business interference, trade secrets, unfair competition, and fraud disputes.

Ms. Ochs-Tillotson also has active advice, training, and investigations practices, assisting employers with a variety of employment and industrial relations issues.  She has represented both private and public employers in a broad array of local, national, and international industries including the accounting, banking, defense, education, hotel, manufacturing, retail, transportation, technology, and utility industries.

Ms. Ochs-Tillotson received her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she was a Regents Scholar.  She received her law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.  She currently teaches at Hastings as an Adjunct Professor of Law in the area of pretrial practice.

She is the immediate past Chairperson of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the National Bar Association (“NBA”), immediate past President of Black Women Lawyers of Northern California, and is a past Director of NBA Region IX.