MoFo cancels Broadmoor retreat
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Morrison & Foerster has postponed its 2009 partner conference, which was due to be held at Broadmoor in June.
Morrison & Foerster has postponed its 2009 partner conference, which was due to be held at Broadmoor in June.
The event, which has been put off until next year, was due to feature a range of events including a performance by the firm’s in-house band the Mofonics, which includes San Diego managing partner Mark Danis.
The move comes after the US firm cut 53 associates from its US offices due to the pressures of the economic downturn at the beginning of this year (28 January).
The luxurious Broadmoor Hotel is based in the mountainous Colarado Springs in the US. The firm also cancelled its Broadmoor conference in 2001 following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the twin towers in New York.
Readers' comments (10)
Anonymous | 1-Apr-2009 1:15 pm
Some cheeky headline writing from your subs...eh!
There's me thinking Iain Huntley and Peter Sutcliffe would be popping up on stage for the band's encore.
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David Bargman | 1-Apr-2009 5:55 pm
The mighty have not fallen, but they are hunched over for now.
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Anonymous | 2-Apr-2009 2:44 am
That will be a relief for 80% of the firms partners. Attending one of these is like watching Sunday morning religious television in the US - but for three days straight. Scary stuff for the majority of partners, but great fun for the "evil ones", the "believers" and those with permanent carpet burns on their hands and knees. Retreats are an obvious target for the razor gang. What will be next? More office closures? Clearing out the non-believers and the associate "partners"?
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Anonymous | 2-Apr-2009 2:55 am
Slow news day?
San Francisco tech firm cancels a boonie to Colorado Springs.
What is the 9/11 connection here?
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Anonymous | 2-Apr-2009 11:43 am
I think the point of the story is the Broadmoor angle, which for a Brit audience is quite amusing. Americans probably don't know that Broadmoor is an asylum for the criminally insane. Did you see what they did there?
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Anonymous | 2-Apr-2009 4:27 pm
Very amusing story. Don't worry Mofo I'm sure they'll cart you off to Broadmoor soon enough!
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Mick Jagger | 2-Apr-2009 4:33 pm
I want tickets to the MoFonics. They're supposed to be awesome, dude!
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Anonymous | 3-Apr-2009 1:57 am
Mick, imagine some overweight, 40-50 year old, IP/Patent litigators, wearing pocket protectors and strap on blackberries, J-Crew and Brooks Brothers kit reworking 70's classics with a legal theme. Fun only if your a regular at the Broadmoor. Slightly more enjoyable than root canal surgery in Dresdnen. I wonder why "FaFo" never made into the "English language while "MoFo" did?
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Keith | 3-Apr-2009 3:35 am
Is the pink dollar is worth less than the greenback?
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Anonymous | 6-Apr-2009 2:06 am
Why not stay at Motel 6? Tom Bodett will wait up and even leave a light on for you.
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