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1856
Alexander Francis Morrison is born in Weymouth, Massachusetts.
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1881
Alexander Morrison becomes associated with the San Francisco firm of Cope & Boyd with offices on 324 Pine Street.
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1883
Mr. Morrison and a colleague, Thomas V. O'Brien, form the firm O'Brien & Morrison.
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Constantine Foerster |
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1890
Constantine E.A. Foerster and William R. Daingerfield become associated with the firm, and the firm name is changed to O'Brien,
Morrison, & Daingerfield, the first in a series of 14 name changes.
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1892
Messrs. Morrison and Foerster dissolve firm and move to the newly constructed eleven story Crocker Building across the street
from the Palace Hotel as one of its first tenants, and commenced the practice of law under the firm name of Morrison & Foerster.
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1893
Brothers F.S. Stratton and J.S. Stratton join the firm and the name changes to Morrison, Stratton, & Foerster. The brothers
leave after only one year, and the name reverts to Morrison & Foerster.
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1897
Walter B. Cope (a Superior Court Judge in Santa Barbara County, with whom Mr. Morrison had been associated in 1881) joins
the firm, and its name becomes Morrison, Foerster & Cope.
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1898
Constantine E.A. Foerster dies, and the firm name is changed to Morrison & Cope.
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1906
W.I. Brobeck joins the firm and it becomes known as Morrison, Cope & Brobeck.
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1909
Judge Cope dies and the firm becomes Morrison & Brobeck.
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1910
Peter F. Dunne joins the firms, which becomes Morrison, Dunne & Brobeck.
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Roland Foerster |
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1918
Roland C. Foerster (son of Constantine E.A. Foerster) joins Morrison, Dunne & Brobeck and later becomes a partner in that
firm.
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1921
Mr. Morrison, at the request of the Chamber of Commerce, makes a goodwill trip to the Orient. While on this trip he contracts
pneumonia and dies in Singapore.
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Edward Hohfeld
J. Franklin Shuman
Herbert W. Clark |
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1925
The firm of Morrison, Dunne, & Brobeck is dissolved, and the firms of Brobeck, Dunne, Phleger & Harrison (later Brobeck, Phleger
& Harrison) and Morrison, Hohfeld, Foerster, Shuman & Clark are formed with offices on the seventh and eleventh floors of
the Crocker Building, respectively. Initially, the members of the Morrison firm are Edward Hohfeld, Roland C. Foerster, John
F. Shuman and Herbert W. Clark.
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1928
Morrison Memorial Library, consisting of over 15,000 volumes which Alexander Morrison had collected, and an endowed reading
room are presented by Mrs. Morrison to the University of California at Berkeley.
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1930
Morrison partners together with May Treat Morrison, widow of Alexander, create and endow the Alexander F. Morrison Lectureship Foundation. To promote Mr. Morrison's scholarly interest in the profession of law, the Foundation begins sponsorship of a lecture given
at the annual California State Bar meeting.
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1939
May T. Morrison dies. The May T. Morrison Trust, administered over the next 20 years, establishes three endowed chairs at
Berkeley; creates scholarships at a half-dozen other universities and is responsible for the Morrison Auditorium and the Alexander
Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences.
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1946 - 1975
As the firm grows, membership in the firm is enlarged. Edward Hohfeld retires in 1946 and, in 1955, the firm name is changed
to Morrison, Foerster, Holloway, Shuman & Clark. Following the death of Mr. Shuman in 1961, the firm name is changed to Morrison,
Foerster, Holloway, Clinton & Clark. In 1975 the name is shortened permanently to Morrison & Foerster.
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1974
Los Angeles office opens.
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1978
First woman is made partner, Wendy Wyse.
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1979
Offices in Washington, D.C. and Denver open.
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1980
Morrison & Foerster becomes an international firm with the opening of its London office.
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1983 - 1987
The firm experiences immense growth with offices opening in Hong Kong, Walnut Creek, Palo Alto, New York, and Tokyo.
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Robert Raven |
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1988
Robert D. Raven becomes president of the American Bar Association. Orange County office opens.
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1991
Sacramento and Brussels offices open.
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1997
Singapore office opens.
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1998
Beijing office opens.
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1999
San Diego office opens.
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2000
Northern Virginia office opens in McLean, VA.
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2001
Strategic alliance formed with Cabanellas, Etchebarne & Kelly Abogados
in Buenos Aires
Joint enterprise formed with Japanese firm Ito & Mitomi, making
MoFo one of the largest international law firms in Tokyo.
Hong Kong Law Society approves MoFo to advise on Hong Kong law.
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2002
American Bar Association awards MoFo its Pro Bono Publico Award.
Tokyo office celebrates 15 years of MoFo in Japan.
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