Dale Larson is an associate in Morrison & Foerster’s Litigation Group in the Los Angeles office.
Mr. Larson received his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where he was an Emil J. Stache scholar and served as a senior editor of the UCLA Law Review. While at UCLA, Mr. Larson published a comment in the UCLA Law Review and articles in the Maryland Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class and the DePaul Journal for Social Justice.
Mr. Larson’s practice focuses on consumer class actions, complex commercial litigation, and intellectual property. Mr. Larson has managed all aspects of cases including drafting complaints, handling discovery, drafting briefs, participating in settlement negotiations, and arguing in many courts throughout the state of California. Mr. Larson has successfully obtained injunctive relief in twelve cases for a large national retailer.
Mr. Larson, together with the ACLU of Southern California and Public Counsel, represented a class of students from three inner-city Los Angeles middle schools in a groundbreaking lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and the state of California. In the suit, Mr. Larson helped obtain a preliminary injunction enjoining LAUSD from laying off any additional teachers at the plaintiffs' three schools, and helped win court approval of a landmark settlement agreement that protects up to forty-five of the most at-risk schools in the district from additional budget-based teacher layoffs each year. For his work on the case, which has received national media attention, Mr. Larson was the 2011 recipient of ACLU's Social Justice Award and Public Counsel Law Center’s Pro Bono Award for Impact Litigation.
After graduating from Duke University in his home state of North Carolina, Mr. Larson worked as a high school mathematics teacher in Tanzania and as a technology consultant for both the U.S. Army and a political organization in Washington, D.C.