Wake Up Call: MoFo Names San Francisco M&A Partner as New Chair

In today’s column, an all-woman team of Boies litigators won a temporary restraining order holding off Louisiana’s abortion ban triggering laws; a case management software company launched a plaintiffs boutique; SCOTUS’ decision ending Roe v. Wade could affect law school applications.

• Leading off, Morrison Foerster said San Francisco-based M&A partner Eric McCrath will take over as firm chair Oct. 3. Current chair Larren Nashelsky is stepping down after about a decade and will remain a New York-based restructuring partner. McCrath, co-chair of the firm’s global corporate department of over 400 lawyers, joined the firm in 2007 and has practiced in ...