The group at Morrison Foerster specializes in wage-and-hour class actions, PAGA cases, whistleblower mandates, and trade secrets litigation. Clients include private and public company boards of directors of companies in the retail, financial services, and tech segments. The team is co-led by San Francisco-based Eric Tate, who regularly represents C-suite executives in employment-related crisis matters and is praised by one client as being at the ‘top of his game’. Alongside him, Los Angeles-based Tritia Murata routinely acts in PAGA mandates and has significant experience defeating class certification in wage-and-hour cases.

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Testimonials

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‘Top-notch team, responsive, highly skilled, strong bench of quality lawyers and staff.’
‘Eric Tate and Andrew Turnbull are at the top of their game. Highly experienced, responsive, thorough and practical.’
‘Strategic, practical, business-oriented lawyers who provide excellent advice and legal service.'
‘Eric Tate is fantastic. He is always very responsive and practical, with impeccable judgment. I trust any member of his team he refers us to.’
‘Excellent knowledge, practical and smart advice, gravitas.’
‘Eric Tate is fantastic. He is both strategic and practical, and he really focuses on the matter at hand in a way that makes you feel well-taken care of.’
‘The team is extraordinarily responsive to time-sensitive matters. With key team members sitting on both the East Coast and the West Coast, there is excellent coverage throughout the US.’
‘Eric Tate is a master at guiding strategic conversations and complex negotiations with many parties including the C-Suite and the Board. I also love that the team is incredibly diverse, which not only reflects strong values but, practically speaking, often lends itself to a measure of credibility on critically important topics.’

Key clients

Springshot, Inc.
Lime
F5 Networks
Ralphs Grocery Company
Alticor/Amway
Nevro Corp.

Work highlights

Represented Springshot, Inc in a breach of contract case against INFORM Software Corp.
Represented Lime in a trade-secret and tortious interference case in federal court against Hertz and a former Lime senior engineer.
Represented and defended Amway Corp. in numerous wage-and-hour matters.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Eric Tate, Tritia Murata