General Membership Meeting (virtual)

Nicholas Folly

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Nicholas Folly is a litigation counsel in the firm’s San Francisco office and a member of the firm’s White Collar & Regulatory Defense Group. A former federal prosecutor with extensive trial experience, he advises clients on complex matters concerning white collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement, internal investigations, and civil litigation.

Before rejoining Debevoise, Mr. Folly served for eight and a half years in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), where he prosecuted and supervised some of the DOJ’s largest and most complex white-collar cases. Most recently, Mr. Folly served as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, where he oversaw prosecutorial work across multiple units, spearheaded office-wide policy initiatives, and worked closely with senior officials at the DOJ, FBI, SEC, CFTC, and the IRS–Criminal Investigation. Before his supervisory role, he served as a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force and the Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit. He tried ten jury trials to verdict and briefed or argued more than a dozen appeals.

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Loni A. Mahanta

Family Violence Appellate Project

Loni is a strategic Regulatory, Legal and Policy Executive whose visionary leadership helps businesses craft winning strategies when Industries face uncertainty. Her focus on agility, resilience and growth empowers organizations to consider the legal, regulatory, and policy landscapes in which they operate. Loni is known for skillfully simplifying the intricacies of business engagement in public policy for any audience — from the gig economy to crypto regulation to property tech. She helps management teams strengthen their collaboration with external constituents through successful engagement plans for interactions with elected officials, community groups, and the media.

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Danielle L. Ochs

Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart

Danielle Ochs is an equity shareholder in the San Francisco office of Ogletree Deakins. She serves as co-chair of the firm’s Technology Practice Group and focuses on matters arising in the TECHPLACETM. She has 30 years of experience representing an array of “tech” employers, as well as employers in a range of other local, national, and international industries, including higher education. Danielle’s experience includes successfully defending employers in both jury and bench trials and in arbitration proceedings. She currently dedicates a significant portion of her practice to trial court litigation, arbitration, and strategic conflict management in the areas of employment law, trade secrets and unfair competition, and technology in the workplace. She works closely with her clients to develop effective strategies for litigating and resolving legal actions, approaching each case zealously and strategically with a steadfast commitment to client service. Danielle also has active advice and counsel, training, and investigations practices, working closely with employers on a variety of employment and employment-based technology, trade secret, and unfair competition compliance issues with the goal of avoiding litigation. In the last five years, Danielle has focused on artificial intelligence (AI) governance and the responsible use of AI in the workplace, including the use of automated employment decision tools (AEDTs), AI-transcription technology, HR chatbots, and the use of GenAI and other emerging technologies in the workplace. Danielle regularly speaks across the country on a range of employment and employment-based technology issues. Check out her latest Insights below.

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