Mr. Wetmore is the Chair of Morrison & Foerster LLP. As Chair of the firm, Mr. Wetmore takes the lead in setting policy and providing strategic direction to the firm.

Before becoming Chair, Mr. Wetmore was Managing Partner of the firm's San Francisco office. He also led the firm's 50-lawyer Finance and Infrastructure practice, bringing to his engagements 20 years' experience in debt and lease finance, both domestic and international.

When in active practice, Mr. Wetmore has represented money center banks as agent in syndicated credit facilities, including multi-billion dollar working capital and acquisition financings as well as smaller transactions, with particular emphasis in the technology and forest products sectors.

Mr. Wetmore was born in Valparaiso, Indiana, in 1956 and received his B.A. degree in economics from Northwestern University in 1977. He graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 1980, where he served as Articles Editor for the Michigan Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He then clerked for Judge J. Edward Lumbard on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York. He associated with Morrison & Foerster in 1982 and became a partner of the firm in 1986.