Susan Mac Cormac — co-chair of both Morrison & Foerster’s business department and the firm’s cleantech group — calls it “the mission of my life”: promoting the cause of environmental sustainability amid what she sees as rapidly dwindling and drastically mispriced natural resources.

It’s a mission that has consumed many of Mac Cormac’s rare free moments since 2001, and it hasn’t been hers alone. With Jones Day energy partner R. Todd Johnson and Silicon Valley attorney Derrick Britt, she has served for the past several years as co-chair of a 10-lawyer working group that turned a desire to work for the greater good into action by drafting, and then advocating on behalf of, legislation that allows for the creation of so-called flexible purpose corporations.

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