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Morrison Foerster Shortlisted in Four Categories for the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers North America 2023 Awards

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Morrison Foerster has been shortlisted by the Financial Times in four categories at the FT Innovative Lawyers North America 2023 Awards. 

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Morrison Foerster has been shortlisted by the Financial Times in four categories at the FT Innovative Lawyers North America 2023 Awards. The awards recognize the most innovative lawyers, private practice, and in-house legal departments in North America. The FT, in partnership with RSGi, compiles shortlists comprised of the top-ranked submissions for each section of the report. Morrison Foerster is among a small group of firms to receive four or more shortlist recognitions.Morrison Foerster was shortlisted in the following four categories:<ul dir="ltr"><li dir="ltr">Innovative Lawyers in Cyber Security & Data Protection: Morrison Foerster’s market-leading Privacy & Data Security Group has been recognized for its role negotiating the return of nearly $200 million in digital assets for Euler, three weeks after these assets were stolen, completing one of the largest recoveries in decentralized finance (DeFi) history.</li><li dir="ltr">Innovative Lawyers in Healthcare & Life Sciences: Morrison Foerster has been named as a finalist in recognition of the firm’s post-Dobbs response, including its involvement in precedent-setting reproductive rights cases and its role in forming the Abortion Defense Network. Across MoFo, our lawyers have dedicated 3,000 hours to post-Dobbs advocacy.</li><li dir="ltr">Innovative Lawyers in Technology: Morrison Foerster, the foremost global law firm to the technology industry, was shortlisted for its role advising clients on many of the most significant matters in the technology space, including groundbreaking licensing deals and major intellectual property litigation.</li><li dir="ltr">Changemaker: Morrison Foerster’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Natalie Kernisant, has been recognized for her strategic leadership of the firm’s efforts to interrupt unconscious bias and advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace.</li></ul>Winners will be announced at the <a href="https://lawyersnorthamerica.live.ft.com/page/2412144/the-awards" target="_blank">awards event</a> at Gotham Hall in New York on December 4, 2023.

Morrison Foerster Shortlisted in Four Categories for the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers North America 2023 Awards

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Natalie Kernisant is Morrison Foerster’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.Natalie provides strategic leadership to advance recruiting and retention of diverse talent at the firm, as well as providing client development support in the area of diversity and inclusion. She works closely with the firm’s Diversity Strategy Committee co-chairs Alexis Amezcua, Purvi Patel, and Mark Whitaker, and Women’s Strategy Committee co-chairs Carrie Cohen, Julie Park, and Stacey Sprenkel.Natalie joined Morrison Foerster in November 2013. She was appointed to the newly created role of Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer in December 2020, having previously served as the firm’s Global Director of Diversity and Inclusion.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Natalie served as Human Resources Manager for Risk Management within Global Banking and Markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Before that, she practiced trademark and copyright law and then served as the Special Projects Manager in the Office of Institutional Policy & Planning at Harvard Medical School overseeing the school’s 2011 accreditation process.In 2021, Natalie was named by Crain’s New York Business to its list of Notable Black Leaders & Executives 2021. The special section recognizes black men and women who have impacted New York City in major ways and sets out to honor their professional, civic, and philanthropic achievements. In 2023, Natalie was recognized as one of Savoy Magazine’s 2023 Most Influential Executives in Diversity & Inclusion. She was also selected to Law360’s Diversity & Inclusion Editorial Advisory Board, whose goal is to provide feedback on Law360’s coverage as well as expert insight on how to shape future coverage. Additionally, she was recognized in the Financial Times 2023 North America Innovative Lawyers report as one of seven individual “Change Makers” in the legal industry for her strategic leadership of the firm’s efforts to interrupt unconscious bias and advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace. In 2024, Natalie was named as a Change Driver in the Annual Diversity Awards of World IP Review (WIPR). The annual Diversity Awards recognize those who have made exceptional contributions to diversity and inclusion in the field of intellectual property.During Natalie’s tenure at MoFo, the firm has received multiple <a href="/culture/diversity#page-section-4" target="_self">diversity and inclusion awards and recognitions</a>.