of Europe's largest media companies, on its acquisition of N24 Media, Germany's largest independent producers of information. In 2022, Morrison & Foerster was a founding member of the Legal Alliance for Reproductive Rights, a coalition of United States law firms offering free legal services to people seeking and providing abortions in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overruled Roe v. Wade. Clients The firm was the lead bankruptcy counsel to Residential Capital. ResCap). and secured their chapter 11 plan. In July 2013, Morrison & Foerster represented SoftBank in its $21.6 billion acquisition of a 78 percent stake in Sprint Nextel. According to The Wall Street Journal, the transaction was "one of the most complex and unusual deals in the annals of takeovers." The firm also represented SoftBank in Alibaba's U.S. IPO—the largest IPO in history. Morrison & Foerster Foundation Formed in 1986, the Morrison & Foerster Foundation is a charitable foundation funded mainly by the firm's partners. In total, the Foundation has donated $44 million to nonprofit organizations since its inception. In 2015, Law360 recognized Morrison & Foerster as one of the 10 Most Charitable Law Firms. Offices Noted professionals Beth Brinkmann, former assistant to the solicitor general of the U.S. from 1993 until 2001, and who served as a partner until 2009. Drew S. Days, III, who served as the United States Solicitor General from 1993 to 1996, and who served as of counsel until 2011. LaShann M. DeArcy, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York since 2015 Ketanji Brown Jackson, Current Justice for the Supreme Court of the United States. Formally judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 2013 to 2021, former commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, who served as of counsel until 2013. Justin Fairfax, who is the lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Virginia. Paul Goldstein, Stanford Law School professor and an expert on intellectual property law, currently serves as of counsel. Shirley Hufstedler, first U.S. Secretary of Education from 1979 to 1981, who was of counsel. Tony West, former acting United States Associate Attorney General, who served as a partner until 2009. References External links Law firms established in 1883 1883 establishments in California Law firms based in San Francisco Foreign law firms with offices in Hong Kong Foreign law firms with offices in Japan