Morrison & Foerster has tapped a lawyer with decades of experience at the U.S. Supreme Court to serve as managing partner of its office in Washington, D.C.

Joseph Palmore, co-chair of the firm’s appellate and Supreme Court practice, has taken the reins of the Am Law 100 firm’s office in the nation’s capital. Palmore has served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and assistant to the solicitor general for more than four years during the Obama administration.