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Morrison Foerster has a long-standing commitment to diversity, inclusion, and pro bono work. MoFo+ shares news and thought leadership from our lawyers and their teams who are proud to contribute to the legal profession and the communities we call home.

May 07, 2020 - MoFo Pro Bono
MoFo Partners with Nonprofit Created to Combat COVID-19
MoFo has taken an especially proactive role in the fight against COVID-19, with, for example, contributions by the Morrison & Foerster Foundation , partners, and employees exceeding $200,000 as of the day of this blog post’s publication. But Boston-based Technology Transactions Group partner Matt
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May 05, 2020 - MoFo Women
Women of Influence: Five Things You Should Know About San Francisco Partner Christine Wong
Christine Wong , the San Francisco-based co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and White-Collar Defense Group, knows what makes investigators tick. For more than seven years during her pre-MoFo career, she worked as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New
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April 29, 2020 - MoFo Women
MoFo Women Spotlight: Julie O’Neill and Beth Tunstall
Editors’ Note: MoFo’s Women’s Strategy Committee (WSC) comprises both male and female partners and associates who strive to foster women attorneys’ development and professional success. In a recent program hosted by the WSC, Boston-based finance associate Maria Strickland interviewed privacy partner Julie O’Neill and
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April 16, 2020 - MoFo Women
Women of Influence: Five Things You Should Know About San Francisco Partner Stacey Sprenkel
Stacey Sprenkel leads Morrison & Foerster’s Global Ethics and Compliance practice and is a member of the firm’s global anti-corruption team. Stacey regularly assists clients with global risk assessments, conducting anti-corruption and compliance focused due diligence in connection with acquisitions and other transactions, and
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April 14, 2020 - MoFo Pro Bono
MoFo Staff Spotlight: Meyvelin Flores
A Special Connection to Immigrant Clients When MoFo Government Contracts partner Tina Reynolds first approached Meyvelin Flores 12 years ago seeking help with interpreting Spanish for a new pro bono client in the firm’s Northern Virginia (NoVa) office, Meyvelin, then a receptionist, was more
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April 08, 2020 - MoFo Diversity
Faces of MoFo: Zainab Ali
Editors’ Note: Read about Zainab Ali, a Los Angeles associate in our Litigation Department, in the latest installment of our ongoing Faces of MoFo series. I was born in the United States to an Austrian mother and an Iraqi father, but soon went to
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April 02, 2020 - MoFo Women
Women Are Gaining Ground… But For the Right Reasons?
Editors’ note: Today, we publish Part II of New York-based litigation associate and MoFo Women’s Strategy Committee member Katie Viggiani ’s interview with the esteemed N.Y.U. Law School Professor Melissa Murray. Here Professor Murray addresses women in the legal profession. In addition to teaching
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March 31, 2020 - MoFo Women
The Advancement of Women in the Legal Profession and Beyond: A Conversation With Professor Melissa Murray
In honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, on March 4, 2020, New York-based litigation associate and MoFo Women’s Strategy Committee member Katie Viggiani interviewed the esteemed New York University Law School Professor Melissa Murray. A Yale Law School graduate and an
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March 11, 2020 - MoFo Women, MoFo Diversity
Women of Influence: Five Things You Should Know About New York Partner Kristen Mathews
Kristen Mathews , partner in Morrison & Foerster’s Privacy + Data Security practice, is one of the many lawyers leading the way for MoFo. For over 20 years, she has been a lead advisor to her clients on some of the most complex privacy
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March 06, 2020 - MoFo Women
Celebrating International Women’s Day & the Women of MoFo’s 2020 Partner Class
International Women’s Day—celebrated on March 8, 2020—is a globally recognized day to honor the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It is also a day to shine a light on the steps we still need to take to accelerate women’s equality. The
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Welcome to the Mofo+ Blog

MoFo Partners with Nonprofit Created to Combat COVID-19

Women of Influence: Five Things You Should Know About San Francisco Partner Christine Wong

MoFo Women Spotlight: Julie O’Neill and Beth Tunstall

Women of Influence: Five Things You Should Know About San Francisco Partner Stacey Sprenkel

MoFo Staff Spotlight: Meyvelin Flores

Faces of MoFo: Zainab Ali

Women Are Gaining Ground… But For the Right Reasons?

The Advancement of Women in the Legal Profession and Beyond: A Conversation With Professor Melissa Murray

Women of Influence: Five Things You Should Know About New York Partner Kristen Mathews

Celebrating International Women’s Day & the Women of MoFo’s 2020 Partner Class