Morrison Foerster

Morrison Foerster

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Tagline:The West Coast-based tech specialist powerhouse

Revenue:Global revenue of $1.41 billion, up 5% year-on-year. PEP of $3 million, up 11% Legal Cheek — the PEP growth outpacing revenue growth reflects disciplined management of the equity partnership rather than headcount expansion. In 2025, the firm received nearly 190 practice area rankings and over 300 individual recognitions across Chambers guides globally. Morrison Foerster PEP at $3 million is strong for a full-service firm of this size and breadth — the product of a deliberate tightening of the equity tier over recent years.

Global Spread / Office Footprint:18 offices across the US, Asia and Europe. Chambers and Partners US: San Francisco (HQ), Palo Alto, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Washington DC, Boston, Austin, Denver and Miami. International: Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo , with Amsterdam opening as the firm's fourth European office in 2025, focused on privacy and data security for technology and life sciences clients. The Asia footprint is the most developed of any comparably-sized firm: offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong, with major matters in China for nearly 40 years Chambers and Partners, plus the dominant Tokyo operation. London is housed in the striking Scalpel building on Lime Street — a physical statement of the office's ambitions in the City.

Prestige / Market Tier:AmLaw 100

Tier 1 Strengths:Global / Technology-Specialist — ranked 40th on the Am Law 200 and 47th on the Global 200 by revenue, with approximately 1,028 lawyers. Law.com Named to The American Lawyer's A-List in 22 of its 23 years — including the top 15 for eight consecutive years Morrison Foerster, a ranking that weights associate satisfaction, diversity and pro bono alongside financials. In technology, life sciences, privacy, and emerging company work, MoFo competes at a level that substantially outpaces its revenue rank.

Notable / Emerging Practices:The West Coast-based Tech specialist

Culture / Work Environment Snapshot:MoFo is, in tone and identity, a West Coast firm that happens to have a significant global presence — and that distinction matters. The firm has received a 100% rating on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index for 21 consecutive years Morrison Foerster, and has been ranked first overall among large law firms for diversity by Law360 for five consecutive years — not as a marketing claim, but as a measured outcome. The culture is collaborative and intellectually curious in the way that firms shaped by the tech industry tend to be: less hierarchical than Wall Street counterparts, more genuinely interested in the content of the work. London trainees describe "cool, techy stuff as the norm," working from a cutting-edge office in the Scalpel with floor-to-ceiling windows and Tower Bridge views, on matters involving Apple, Uber, Nvidia and SoftBank. For lawyers who want to be at the intersection of law and the industries actually reshaping the global economy — rather than advising on the twentieth iteration of a leveraged buyout structure — Morrison Foerster is one of the most compelling propositions in the market.

Last Updated: April 2, 2026

Founded in San Francisco in 1883, Morrison Foerster occupies a distinctive and genuinely unusual position in global law: it is a full-service firm whose identity, client base and strongest practices are all shaped by its deep roots in technology and innovation.

Where most global firms built their reputations on M&A or finance and later adapted to tech, MoFo built from the other direction — out of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, into the world’s largest capital markets and most complex litigation.

The result is a firm that thinks differently, attracts different clients, and competes in practice areas where most peers are still catching up. In Japan, MoFo has the largest presence of any global firm and is one of the largest law firms in the country, domestic or international — a position built over nearly four decades that gives it a Pacific Rim footprint no competitor has replicated.

The client roster runs from Apple and Nvidia to SoftBank and Alibaba, and the firm has acted on some of the defining technology transactions of the past two decades, including SoftBank’s $21.6 billion acquisition of Sprint and Alibaba’s US IPO — at the time the largest in history. Revenue rose 5% to $1.41 billion in 2024, with PEP up 11% to $3 million — a firm in sustained forward motion in the practices that will define the next decade of legal work.

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