Position: Partner

TEL: 415-268-7000

FAX: 415-268-7522

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Website: www.mofo.com

Admitted: California

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Practice Areas: Complex Civil Litigation, Complex Criminal Defense Litigation

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George Harris is a litigation partner in the San Francisco and Sacramento offices. His practice focuses on complex civil and criminal litigation matters, including many high profile cases, at the trial and appellate level in state and federal court. Mr. Harris has handled a wide range of civil litigation matters, including litigation in areas of professional responsibility, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, trade secrets, insurance coverage and bad faith, product liability, securities fraud, environmental cleanup, commercial and construction contracts, and real estate. He has also represented clients in commercial arbitrations both domestically and internationally. His criminal practice has included cases involving charges of bid rigging, perjury, false government claims, tax evasion, money laundering, commodities fraud and interstate transportation of explosives. Mr. Harris began legal practice at the San Francisco firm of Altshuler & Berzon, moving to Morrison & Foerster in 1987 and becoming a partner in 1990. In 1996, he left the partnership to assume a teaching position at the University of Utah Law School, where he taught courses in trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, civil procedure, and legal ethics. He returned to the firm in 2001. Mr. Harris has also served as Director of the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution and Director of the Appellate and International Advocacy program at the University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law, where he has taught appellate and international advocacy, criminal law, criminal procedure and legal ethics.

Reported Case: The SCO Group, Inc. v. Novell, Inc.

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