San Francisco, CA, November 29, 2006 -- Morrison & Foerster LLP is pleased that 13 of the firm's practice areas and 21 attorneys across 4 continents have been recommended in the 2007 Chambers & Partners' annual Global Guide: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business.

Practice areas and attorney rankings within a Chambers guide come from extensive independently-conducted research and in-depth interviews with in-house counsel, peers, and competitors in the respective practice field. Chambers' researchers spend almost a year canvassing clients and attorneys throughout the world to obtain a consistent assessment of which firms and attorneys are valued as leaders in their field. No firm or individual attorney can purchase a recommendation in a Chambers guide.

Chambers Global recognized the following practice areas:

Banking & Finance
Capital Markets
Corporate/M&A
Dispute Resolution
Energy: Oil & Gas
Information Technology & Outsourcing
Intellectual Property
Litigation: Trial Lawyers
Private Equity
Projects & Energy
Real Estate
Tax
Telecom, Broadcast & Satellite

Chambers also recognized the following individual attorneys who were recommended by clients and peers:

China/Hong Kong

Private Equity
Robert Woll

Global

Projects & Energy: Asia Pacific
Tsugumichi D. Watanabe
Wayne Pittaway

Japan

Capital Markets
Fuyuo Mitomi
Saori Nakamura
Andrew Winden

Corporate/M&A
Fuyuo Mitomi
Ken Siegel

Dispute Resolution
Alan Cope Johnston

Intellectual Property
Alan Cope Johnston

Real Estate
Keisuke Mochizuki
Theodore S. Seltzer

United Kingdom

Information Technology
Alistair Maughan

United States

Banking & Finance
L. Richard Fischer

Capital Markets
Anna Pinedo

Information Technology & Outsourcing
John Delaney
Paul E. Jahn

Intellectual Property
Harold J. McElhinny
Michael Jacobs
Gerald Dodson

Litigation: Trial Lawyers
James J. Brosnahan

Tax: Corporate
Stuart J. Offer

Telecom, Broadcast & Satellite
Cheryl Tritt