Danielle Ochs-Tillotson
Adjunct Professor Danielle Ochs-Tillotson is a shareholder at Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak &
Stewart, P.C. in San Francisco. She has more than fifteen 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. Professor 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, Professor Ochs-Tillotson has
litigated a range of business disputes including contract, defamation, business interference, trade
secrets, and fraud disputes.
Professor 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.
Professor 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.