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March 17, 2023 - MoFo Women, MoFo Diversity
Celebrating Women’s History Month: A Conversation with Reshma Saujani
By: Meghan McLean Poon Ph.D.
As part of Morrison Foerster’s ongoing celebration of Women’s History Month, MoFo’s Meghan Poon moderated a conversation with Reshma Saujani, bestselling author, activist, and the founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms (now known as MOMS F1RST). Reshma has spent
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March 15, 2023 - MoFo Diversity, MoFo Women
Celebrating International Women’s Day: A Conversation with Shirin Neshat
By: Narges Kahvazadeh
In celebration of International Women’s Day, MoFo’s Narges Kahvazadeh moderated a discussion with Shirin Neshat, award-winning Iranian American visual artist and filmmaker. During the program, Shirin highlighted some of her pieces while also sharing her story of immigrating to the United States and how
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March 08, 2023 - MoFo Women, MoFo Diversity
Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023
By: Brigid DeCoursey Bondoc, Melissa M. Crespo, Shaelyn K. Dawson, Aya Eguchi, Katherine Erbeznik and Lily Li
International Women’s Day—celebrated on March 8, 2023—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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February 10, 2023 - MoFo Women, MoFo Diversity
Lawyers of Color Names Samantha Rose to its Hot List 2022
By: Samantha Rose
Lawyers of Color has named MoFo's Samantha Rose to their Hot List 2022. The publication recognizes early-to mid-career attorneys who have demonstrated excellence in their respective practice areas. The honorees are chosen by a selection committee that spends months reviewing nominations and researching bar
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May 03, 2022 - MoFo Women
Faces of MoFo: Vanshika Vij
Editors’ Note: As part of our ongoing Faces of MoFo series, Vanshika Vij , an associate in the firm’s Litigation Practice, discusses her career path and what led her to call MoFo home. While in law school, I gravitated to criminal law. I was
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April 01, 2022 - MoFo Women, MoFo Diversity
Celebrating Women’s History Month: A Closer Look at Research from McKinsey & Company: Women in the Workplace 2021
MoFo’s New York Litigation associate Lena Hughes recently hosted an informative and compelling conversation with McKinsey & Company’s Joanna Si, engagement manager and leader in McKinsey’s legal and professional services, to review the findings of McKinsey’s seventh annual Women in the Workplace 2021 report
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March 25, 2022 - MoFo Women, MoFo Diversity
Partner Spotlight: Purvi Patel
Purvi G. Patel is the managing partner of the firm’s Los Angeles office. Purvi represents retail, e-commerce, and other businesses in significant advertising, privacy, unfair competition, and consumer fraud matters. She has built a robust practice advising household names on various compliance issues and
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March 09, 2022 - MoFo Women
International Women’s Day: Lisa Silverman
Lisa N. Silverman focuses on patent portfolio management and strategic patent counseling in the areas of chemistry and life sciences. She has extensive experience in securing U.S. and foreign patent protection for pharmaceutical products and a deep understanding of patent lifecycle management and strategies
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March 09, 2022 - MoFo Women
International Women’s Day: Marian Waldmann Agarwal
Marian Waldmann Agarwal has a unique blend of business and legal skills she leverages when counseling clients on various privacy and data security matters. With a background in information systems and business management, and in-house experience as a secondee to two different companies, she
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March 09, 2022 - MoFo Women
International Women’s Day: Mary Kaiser
Mary Kaiser is a partner in Morrison & Foerster’s Global Antitrust Law practice. Mary represents domestic and multinational companies as both plaintiffs and defendants in all aspects of antitrust and competition-related matters, including internal and government antitrust investigations, enforcement proceedings, and class action litigation
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