United States:
Diversity In Practice: Navigating Pandemic & Protest, Episode 3
04 December 2020
Morrison & Foerster LLP
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In the third episode of the Wetmore Fellow subseries, Los
Angeles Litigation Associate and Fellow alumna Mia Akers hosts a
discussion with New York Litigation partner and chair of the
Morrison & Foerster Foundation Jamie Levitt, and Palo Alto IP
Litigation partner and vice-chair of MoFo's Pro Bono Services
Committee Colette Mayer about how quickly the Foundation and the
firm's lawyers answered the call to serve those populations for
whom the social and economic toll of the pandemic is most severe.
The participants also discuss the firm and the Foundation's
immediate response to racial injustice in support of the
communities in which we work and live.
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