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“We are committed to having
a one-firm culture”
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LARREN NASHELSKY
Chair, MORRISON & FOERSTER
Leaders League. How has Morrison &
ment organized?
Foerster become a global player?
L. M. N. We are committed to having a
Larren M. Nashelsky. The firm was founone-firm culture. As we have grown gloded in 1883 by Alexander Morrison in
bally, that commitment has sustained a
San Francisco, a city built and sustained
collaborative culture among our deep
by innovators. That spirit of innovation
pool of talent across the globe to provide
continues to inform the work we do, even
our clients with first-rate service. We place
as we’ve grown beyond our
great emphasis on firm-wide
San Francisco roots to becoordination of decision
come a global player. In
making and teamwork. It’s
addition to the firm’s strong
important that we maintain
footprint in the U.S., we are “OUR REMUNERATION an environment and culture
the leading international
SYSTEM REINFORCES where everyone at the firm is
firm in Japan and continue
invested in our success and
OUR COLLABORATIVE are proud of our accomplito expand in Asia, with the
CULTURE”
success of opening an office
shments.
in Singapore in early 2013.
We’ve also had tremendous
Leaders League. Could you
success in Europe with the
describe your partners reopening of our Berlin office
muneration system (lockstep
in late 2013. Today the firm is recognized
vs. eat what you kill)?
throughout the world as a leader in proviL. M. N. Our remuneration system reinding cutting-edge legal advice on matters
forces our collaborative culture and is a
redefining business across a network of
thoughtful process that considers all the
17 offices in key technology and finanways each partner contributes value to the
cial centers in the United States, Asia,
firm. We have a diverse compensation
and Europe.
committee comprised of 15 partners that
meet with every partner at the firm for a
Leaders League. With approximately
consensus-driven process that determines
1,000 lawyers, how is the firm managecompensation.
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