Editors

Megan Gerking

Megan E. Gerking is of counsel in Morrison & Foerster’s Global Antitrust Law Practice, where she focuses on government-facing antitrust matters. More ›

Tyler Sewell

Tyler Sewell is a partner in the Corporate Department of Morrison & Foerster’s Denver office, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. He focuses his practice on advising clients on a broad range of corporate matters, with an emphasis on M&A, private equity transactions and other complex corporate transactions. More ›

Lyle Hedgecock

Lyle Hedgecock is an associate in the Government Contracts practice group in the Washington, D.C. office. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Lyle served as a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and had a decorated military career in the U.S. Air Force. More ›

Rob Manoso

Robert Manoso is a Litigation associate in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on complex commercial disputes, as well as civil, criminal, and internal investigations and related enforcement proceedings. More ›

Locke Bell

Locke Bell focuses his practice on contractor rights in patents, data, and software, compliance with federal cybersecurity laws and regulations, and litigating bid protests and claims disputes before the Government Accountability Office, boards of contract appeals, and Court of Federal Claims. More ›

Rohani Mahyera

Rohani Mahyera is a member of the firm’s Finance and Projects Group and focuses her practice on representing global financial institutions, alternative lenders, public and private borrowers, and other corporate entities in complex finance transactions. More ›

Kathy Weinberg

Kathy Weinberg is an Of Counsel in the firm’s Government Contracts practice. She attended Cornell Law School, and she counsels and teaches in the areas of Truth in Negotiations, costs, accounting, and other issues. More ›

Spencer Klein

Spencer is a partner in the Corporate Department and serves as co-chair of the firm's global Mergers & Acquisitions Group and head of the Corporate Department in New York. Spencer focuses his practice on M+A transactions and related matters such as proxy contests and takeover defense counseling. More ›

Daniel Chudd

Brian Kidd

Brian Kidd is former Chief of the Market Integrity and Major Frauds (MIMF) Unit of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and a partner in Morrison & Foerster’s Investigations + White Collar Defense Practice Group. More ›

David Newman

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Alex Rheaume

Alex represents commercial banks and other financial institutions in secured lending transactions and debt restructurings. His work with lenders regularly involves structuring, negotiating, and documenting secured credit facilities, intercreditor agreements, restructured financing arrangements, modification agreements, and forbearance agreements. More ›

Ryan Farha

Ryan Farha is an associate in the firm’s Corporate Group in the New York office. Ryan's practice focuses on M&A, private equity and venture capital investments, and other corporate transactions. More ›

Rick Vacura

Ed Jackson

Ed Jackson is a litigator and counselor in the Government Contracts & Public Procurement practice. Ed focuses on government procurement law and litigation for defense and health care contractors, with an emphasis on cost issues under the Federal Acquisition Regulation cost principles and the Cost Accounting Standards (“CAS”). More ›

David Allman*

Nate Taylor

The breadth of Nathan Taylor’s work on cybersecurity issues allows him to provide unparalleled advice to clients and valuable benchmarking across and within industries. From conducting customized tabletops for executives and senior management, preparing incident response plans and advising on PCI compliance, Mr. Taylor provides practical advice to help companies enhance their cybersecurity posture. More ›

Roke Iko*

*Roke is a law clerk in Morrison & Foerster's Washington, D.C. office and is not admitted to the bar.

Andrew Turnbull

Andrew Turnbull represents companies on a broad range of labor and employment litigation and counseling matters. He has successfully defended clients in complex employment litigation before federal and state courts and administrative agencies. More ›

Alex Iftimie

Co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Global Risk and Crisis Management group, Alex routinely advises Fortune 500 and high-growth clients on all aspects of breach preparedness and response, including counseling executives on cybersecurity governance and risk management, and responding to cyber incidents ranging from ransomware attacks to nation-state sponsored economic espionage. More ›

Bethany Hills

Bethany advises her life sciences business clients on both pre- and post-market issues, including everything from FDA submissions and communications strategies to post-approval compliance and reimbursement issues. Her clients include medical device, drug, combination product, diagnostic, biologic, and regenerative medicine, cosmetic, dietary supplement, and food industry companies, and the investor groups focusing on these industries. More ›

Theresa Oehm

Theresa Oehm is an associate at Morrison & Foerster’s German office in Berlin and a member of our litigation practice group. She advises clients in the technology, media and telecommunications sector on all aspects of antitrust law and regulatory law. More ›

Moritz Heuser

Moritz Heuser is a senior associate at Morrison & Foerster’s German office in Berlin and a member of our Corporate Department. His practice focuses on German and cross-border M&A transactions and general corporate matters, with an emphasis on stock corporation law. More ›

Rachael Plymale

Rachael Plymale represents both large and small government contractors in a wide variety of litigation including bid protests, contracts claims and disputes, size determinations, and False Claims Act cases. More ›

Brandon Van Grack

Brandon L. Van Grack co-chairs Morrison & Foerster’s National Security and Global Risk + Crisis Management groups. His practice focuses on investigations, criminal defense, and compliance matters involving export controls and sanctions, foreign investment, and cyber incidents. Brandon’s arrival to the firm follows more than a decade of service at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he held multiple senior positions. Most recently, he was Chief of DOJ’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit, after serving as a lead prosecutor for Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. More ›

Janie Schulman

Janie Schulman has specialized in employment, whistleblower retaliation, and trade secrets litigation and counseling for almost 30 years. She has developed expertise in employment law issues unique to several industries, including financial services, technology, medical/life sciences, retail, and hospitality. Clients appreciate Janie’s practical solutions to their employment problems, which align with the clients’ business objectives and are legally compliant. More ›

Bonnie Lau

Bonnie’s practice focuses on antitrust and unfair competition class action litigation in federal and state courts, as well as enforcement proceedings before agencies in the U.S. and other countries. She leverages her almost 15 years of experience in civil and criminal antitrust litigation and investigations to advise clients across a range of industries that face government scrutiny, including technology and manufacturing. More ›

Amber Shubin

Amber's practice focuses on employment and labor law. She has particular experience in counseling employers of various sizes on a wide range of labor and employment-related matters, including planning and implementing reductions-in-force, evaluating worker classification issues, drafting and evaluating restrictive covenants, drafting and negotiating employment, severance, and general release agreements, complying with wage payment and sick leave obligations, and drafting effective personnel policies. More ›

Ali Young

Ali Young is an associate in the Government Contracts practice in Morrison & Forester’s Washington, D.C. office. More ›

Michael Mateer

Caitlin Crujido

Caitlin Crujido is an associate in the Government Contracts practice in Morrison & Foerster’s Washington, D.C. office. More ›

Eliot Adelson

Eliot handles complex legal issues facing clients across the globe. He provides clients with strategies for resolving a broad range of disputes, including civil and criminal antitrust litigation, and internal and government investigations. More ›

Alexander Lawrence

J. Alexander Lawrence’s practice involves all aspects of complex commercial litigation in federal and state trial and appellate courts, and in arbitration. He has represented U.S. and international clients in actions involving intellectual property rights, trade secrets, federal securities laws, the False Claims Act, and a wide array of commercial disputes. More ›

Neil Scott Tyler

Neil Tyler focuses his practice on the defense of labor and employment, consumer class action and commercial litigation matters across a broad range of industries including technology, healthcare, financial services and entertainment. More ›

Victoria Dalcourt Angle

Victoria Dalcourt Angle is an associate in Morrison & Foerster’s Government Contracts practice. Tori earned her J.D. with honors and a concentration in Government Procurement Law from The George Washington University Law School, where she was an associate of The George Washington Law Review, a Dean’s Fellow in the Legal Research and Writing Program, and a Murray J. Schooner Government Procurement Law Scholar. More ›

Seth Lloyd

Seth Lloyd is an associate in Morrison & Foerster’s Appellate and Supreme Court Practice with broad experience briefing and arguing appeals. Seth has particular experience in patent appeals before the Federal Circuit. He has been a primary author of successful briefs on a wide range of technologies, from medical devices to chemistry to computer hardware and software. He also has successfully argued multiple times in that Court, including obtaining reversal of three Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions in a consolidated appeal for a computer memory designer. Before joining Morrison & Foerster, Seth served as a law clerk for Judge Richard G. Taranto of the Federal Circuit. He earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School and also holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. More ›

Rhiannon Batchelder

Rhiannon Nicole Batchelder is an associate in the Litigation Department in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster. More ›

David Cross

David Cross is a trial lawyer with extensive experience in antitrust and other complex business litigation, including intellectual property, health care, securities, and general commercial litigation. More ›

Samuel Goldstein

Sam Goldstein is an associate in Morrison & Foerster’s Appellate and Supreme Court Practice Group in the Washington, D.C. office. Sam’s practice focuses on complex appellate matters, including patent appeals before the Federal Circuit. Before joining Morrison & Foerster, Sam served as a law clerk for Judge Richard G. Taranto of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Sam earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was an articles editor for the Stanford Law Review, and his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University in chemistry and physics. More ›

Anna Sturgis

Anna Sturgis is an attorney in DC focusing on government contracts. While attending George Washington University Law School, she was on the Public Contract Law Journal. Anna also holds an MSW from Washington University.

Lisa Phelan

Lisa M. Phelan, former Chief of the National Criminal Enforcement and Washington Criminal I Sections of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), is a partner in Morrison & Foerster’s Global Antitrust Law Practice and Investigations + White Collar Group. More ›

David Meyer

Kevin Mullen

Kevin P. Mullen has broad experience in numerous facets of government contracts matters including agency procurements, subcontracting, teaming and joint venture relationships, contract performance issues, intellectual property, compliance matters, due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, and procurement fraud matters. More ›

Tina Reynolds

Tina counsels a wide variety of government contractors on compliance with federal acquisition and ethics regulations. She drafts and negotiates contracts on their behalf and has been involved with numerous internal investigations and compliance reviews, and with bid protest, contract claims, and False Claims Act litigation. She also advises on M&A transactions involving government contractors. More ›

Alex Ward

J. Alex Ward is co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement practice. His practice covers a full range of government contracts matters, including bid protests, claims, investigations, corporate transactions, and counseling. More ›

Bradley Wine

Brad is Global Co-Chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Litigation Department and also serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Israel practice. He is the former Co-Chair of the firm’s Government Contracts + Public Procurement Practice. Brad represents a wide range of government contractors and other businesses in highly regulated industries with a focus on civil litigation, compliance, and counseling. He advises companies on a variety of U.S./Israel cross-border matters and regularly speaks in Israel on a full range of legal, business, and geo-political issues. More ›

Susan Borschel

Steven Cave

Catherine Chapple

Sandeep Nandivada

Sandeep assists clients with bid protests and contract disputes, and has advised clients regarding internal investigations with False Claims Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and suspension and debarment implications, including helping clients with mandatory disclosures required under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). More ›

Damien Specht

Damien is a partner in the firm’s Government Contracts & Public Procurement practice. He represents clients in all facets of government contracts transactions, as well as regulatory counseling, subcontract and teaming agreement negotiations, contract disputes, size protests, and bid protests. More ›

W. Jay DeVecchio

Jay is a litigator and former Co-Chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement practice. Clients from the aerospace, technology, and health care sectors seek his representation in all facets of government procurement law, from bid protests to complex claims and disputes through suspension and debarment. More ›

David Churchill

David is a former Co-Chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement practice. His practice includes litigation of disputes involving the award, performance, and termination of federal contract disputes before the Court of Federal Claims, the agency boards of contract appeals, and the Government Accountability Office. More ›