

Law Workshop with Orrick
Q&A Legal Office Hours with Orrick
Come ask all your legal questions with start-up lawyer Julien Barbey from Orrick!
What is Orrick?
Orrick is one of the world’s top start-up law firm that advises over 5,000 start-ups including Stripe, Anthropic, Deel, Mercor, Etched and Polymarket to name a few. They are a full-service, global firm with lawyers in every area including IP, patents & trademarks, FDA regulatory, fintech, crypto, regulatory & defense, immigration and tax. Many founders in prior batches of The Residency have chosen to work with Orrick after meeting their lawyers and it has worked out incredibly well.
Orrick has been The Residency’s official legal partner since 2025 and is offering companies from The Residency an extremely generous set of fee deferrals, credits and discounts that are designed to help founders get the world class legal support they need to raise funding and reach the next step.
What to expect?
It will be an open forum format where you can ask any questions you want of Julien. Julien has done over 100 Safe and Preferred Stock financings and has formed hundreds of start-ups. There is nothing he hasn’t seen so please don’t hesitate to ask anything ranging from fundraising, IP, taxes, SAFEs, cap table and vesting!