Dr. Murashige's practice focuses on the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. She is a member of the AAAS committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. Recently, Dr. Murashige was selected as a top attorney by her peers in The Best Lawyers in America 2007-2008® in the field of biotechnology law. In 2006, she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Washington University in St. Louis for attaining distinction in her professional career and for having demonstrated service to the community and the university.

Dr. Murashige has taught college chemistry and was Physical Sciences Chairperson of the College of San Mateo for six years. She was a member of the former National Biotechnology Policy Board for NIH and is a past chairperson of the Biotechnology Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. She has been an invited speaker at the Human Genome Conference on patent matters and has been an advisor on gene patenting to the OTA. She has spoken before Members of Congress and their staffs regarding the Human Genome Project.

Dr. Murashige has practiced law since 1977. She was associated with the firm of Lyon & Lyon of Los Angeles and was in corporate practice at Syntex and later at Genentech. In 1983, she left Genentech to form Ciotti & Murashige, which became one of the nation's premier biotechnology and bioscience practices. She joined Morrison & Foerster in 1991 along with the rest of the Ciotti & Murashige group.