Why MoFo?
MoFo is a destination law firm for talented, ambitious attorneys who value collaboration, teamwork, and commitment to excellence. We are known around the world not only for delivering innovative yet practical client service but also for serving as an incubator for our top-notch talent.
MoFo consistently receives top-tier rankings from leading directories and publications, speaking to our legal capabilities, dedication to creating an inclusive workplace, and commitment to our communities. Learn more about why MoFo here.
What to Expect
MoFo empowers its lawyers at every level to take ownership of their careers and is transparent about what it takes to succeed and advance at the firm. We commit to provide our attorneys the experiences, challenges, training, mentoring, and other support to allow them to become great lawyers. MoFo NEXT, our dedicated Center for Career Advancement, offers comprehensive support to our current, former, and future colleagues, wherever their professional aspirations may take them. We want all our attorneys to achieve career satisfaction, no matter where their paths lead: whether as our partners, as our clients, as academics, as entrepreneurs, or as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Our Summer Associate Program provides law students with real work, real skills, real guidance, and a realistic view of working at MoFo:
Real Work
MoFo summer associates are entrusted with responsibilities and tasks typically assigned to junior associates. This includes:
Real Skills
Our Summer Associate Program is meticulously crafted to offer students direct participation and hands-on experience in engaging client matters and firm social events to provide a realistic view of what a MoFo career looks like. Tailored, interactive learning and development programs and department presentations will help you build practice and professional skills and learn about the full capabilities of the firm.
Real Guidance
Mentors will help MoFo summer associates acclimate to the firm’s values, operations, and expectations, and introduce them to the legal and business professionals across departments and offices. Our attorneys understand the importance of providing students with not only guidance but also a welcoming environment where you are encouraged to ask questions and contribute to the team.
Own Your MoFo Career
The firm’s commitment to our attorneys’ growth extends throughout their careers. Our dedicated team of Learning & Development professionals designed MoFoundations, an innovative training and development curriculum that kickstarts the legal careers of recent law school graduates and judicial clerks. MoFoundations provides the foundation of practical and professional skills for new associates to successfully integrate into the practice through educational presentations, experiential workshops, expert panels, asynchronous work, and collaborative exercises.
MyMoFo is a best-in-class and transparent framework for success designed to empower junior, mid-level, and senior associates to take control of their careers. MyMoFo allows individuals to chart their career trajectories, whether they aspire to partnership or envision a career beyond MoFo. MyMoFo provides clear and consistent expectations for success at every experience level so associates can measure their own performance and progress, identify opportunities for growth and areas for skill development, and understand the firm’s expectations. These expectations include a genuine commitment to our shared values, the basis of MyMoFo:
Succeed as One
MoFo stands out from our peers due to our strong emphasis on collaboration. Our global team works together across borders, practice areas, and functions to deliver effective and efficient business-oriented results to clients worldwide. Teamwork is not just a concept, but a guiding principle that directs our work together in our clients’ and communities’ best interests. While each of our 2,200+ legal and business professionals has unique goals, we are united in our duty to deliver results that best serve each other, our clients, and our communities. The success of MoFo is a testament to our attorneys’ collaboration, commitment, and engagement. We believe in succeeding as one firm, and this belief is reflected in our work ethic and client results.
Driven by Excellence
Our clients choose MoFo for our attorneys’ excellence in legal practice, including analysis and judgment, exceptional communication skills, deep subject matter expertise, practical legal strategies and resourcefulness, and superior business aptitude. MoFo associates receive challenging opportunities, practical training, effective mentoring, timely and candid feedback, and other support to allow them to develop to their fullest potential.
Inclusive to the Core
Our strength and success are rooted in our diverse and collective talent and MoFo remains committed to our core value of inclusivity, ensuring everyone who joins us feels welcome, valued, and respected. Our differences make us stronger and enhance our ability to serve our clients, advocate for justice, and support the communities we serve, both locally and globally.
Committed to Service
MoFo’s pro bono work runs the gamut, from class action representation that benefits thousands to individual advocacy for people who otherwise would be shut out from access to justice. We staff legal service clinics and counsel hundreds of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises on legal needs, from corporate formation to patent claims. In all these matters, we are guided by the principle of according equal dignity and applying equal rigor to our pro bono endeavors. Explore some of MoFo’s most memorable pro bono moments, meet the people making a difference, and learn more about our unwavering commitment to pro bono efforts worldwide here.
Our Future Is Yours
We hire, develop, and nurture exceptional people. No matter where you start or how you finish your MoFo story, the firm will help you chart a career path that aligns with your interests and passions. This includes encouraging and nurturing our talent and offering comprehensive career guidance along the way. It also includes continuing to support our attorneys who join our wonderful worldwide alumni network. Get to know us and understand why there truly is a MoFo difference here.
More About MoFo
With 1,000+ lawyers across 18 offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia, Morrison Foerster is a globally recognized law firm dedicated to fully developing our talent and serving our clients, which include the largest financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and leading technology and life sciences companies. We represent organizations—whether established for decades or just an entrepreneur’s idea—as they grow, innovate, disrupt, and develop into leading industry players and household names. For more detailed information about our firm’s capabilities, our attorneys’ practices, and our clients’ industries, please visit Capabilities | Morrison Foerster (mofo.com).
More About MoFo San Francisco
In San Francisco, we compete in an annual office salsa cookoff contest as well as in several intramural sports leagues as team “Play Like a MoFo.” Our weekly and monthly office happy hours highlight different diversity initiatives, spotlighting different cuisines and local chefs. Our building features a mini café and a gym, complete with showers.
