George Harris is a litigation partner in the San Francisco and Sacramento offices. His practice focuses on complex civil and criminal litigation matters, including many high profile cases, at the trial and appellate level in state and federal court.

Mr. Harris has handled a wide range of civil litigation matters, including litigation in areas of professional responsibility, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, trade secrets, insurance coverage and bad faith, product liability, securities fraud, environmental cleanup, commercial and construction contracts, and real estate. He has also represented clients in commercial arbitrations both domestically and internationally. His criminal practice has included cases involving charges of bid rigging, perjury, false government claims, tax evasion, money laundering, commodities fraud and interstate transportation of explosives.

Mr. Harris began legal practice at the San Francisco firm of Altshuler & Berzon, moving to Morrison & Foerster in 1987 and becoming a partner in 1990. In 1996, he left the partnership to assume a teaching position at the University of Utah Law School, where he taught courses in trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, civil procedure, and legal ethics. He returned to the firm in 2001. Mr. Harris has also served as Director of the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution and Director of the Appellate and International Advocacy program at the University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law, where he has taught appellate and international advocacy, criminal law, criminal procedure and legal ethics.

• Appointed to serve as associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh in order to assist as trial counsel in the prosecution of former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger.
• Represented the Port of Guam in insurance coverage arbitration in Hong Kong that resulted in full recovery of $20 million necessary to repair earthquake damage to the port.
• Represented the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum at the trial and appellate levels in defense of fraud claims by the Oakland Raiders that resulted in no recovery for the Raiders.