Ms. Hufstedler, Senior Of Counsel to Morrison & Foerster, has focused her practice on civil litigation for over fifty years at all levels of state and federal judicial systems. Her principal work has been appellate litigation, as an appellate judge in federal and state courts for fourteen years and in private practice as an appellate advocate. As an advocate, Ms. Hufstedler has been frequently called upon to undertake complicated civil cases in a wide variety of legal fields, such as admiralty, antitrust, contracts, constitutional law, conflicts, copyright, insurance, intellectual property, inverse condemnation, municipal corporations, products liability, securities, torts, and innumerable aspects of state and federal statutes and procedures.
She is nationally known for her work in analyzing judicial systems, creating new procedures to improve the management of caseloads of trial and appellate court systems, and in designing the first system to weight appellate court caseloads.