Morrison & Foerster has tapped a lawyer with decades of experience at the U.S. Supreme Court to serve as managing partner of its office in Washington, D.C.

Joseph Palmore, co-chair of the firm's appellate and Supreme Court practice, has taken the reins of the Am Law 100 firm's office in the nation's capital. Palmore has served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and assistant to the solicitor general for more than four years during the Obama administration.

“D.C. is a strategic priority for the firm as a whole, because the firm sees tremendous opportunities for growth here to support our national and international clients who have thorny regulatory issues or difficult government-facing issues,” Palmore said.