Former Morrison & Foerster Chair Marshall Small Dies at 92

Marshall L. Small, former chair of Morrison & Foerster, died on Dec. 8 in San Francisco at age 92, his firm has announced.

Small spent 65 years, almost his entire legal career, at Morrison & Foerster, joining in 1954 as the first Jewish lawyer hired by the firm. He still worked at the firm as “senior of counsel” at the time of his death.

“Marshall had experience being the first, and he knew what exclusion felt like,” said Larren M. Nashelsky, the firm’s chair. “He used that experience to create more opportunities in hiring, and was responsible for bringing more ...