Large Firms
Feb. 7, 2009
Found in Translation: MoFo Thrives in Japan
As a young associate for Morrison & Foerster, Ken Siegel helped open the firm's first office in Japan in 1987. Today, the Toyko office is brimming with more than 100 attorneys, making it the largest international law firm in the country.
Daily Journal Staff Writer When Morrison & Foerster began representing Fujitsu in Japan in the 1980s, it was a bit of a covert operation. Fujitsu asked the American attorneys to leave their business cards at home and work out of an unmarked office at an off-site location. "They were concerned about people finding out that they had U.S. attorneys working for them here in Japan," said Ken Siegel, managing partner of MoF...
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