In the mid-1970s, when Kathleen Fisher joined Morrison & Foerster as a summer associate, women lawyers were just hitting critical mass at the firm.
Out of 70 attorneys, about a dozen were women. Over the decades, MoFo gained a reputation as a firm where women attorneys were successful. When others asked what’s in the secret sauce, Fisher emphasized that it was not — as many seemed to believe — just the firm’s “progressive policies.” Rather, it was MoFo’s modern-day founders, men of a certain generation, as Fisher described them, who were not just tolerant of having women colleagues, but who were enthusiastically engaged in practicing with them.
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