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Date: May 26, 2023

Partners Margaret Johnson and Mary Street Named Co-Chairs of Foley Mansfield’s Appellate Practice Group

by Foley Mansfield
Date: May 26, 2023
by Foley Mansfield

Partners Margaret Johnson and Mary Street Named Co-Chairs of Foley Mansfield’s Appellate Practice Group

Foley Mansfield is pleased to announce that partners Margaret “MJ” Johnson of Los Angeles and Mary Street of Miami have been named Co-Chairs of the firm’s Appellate Practice Group.

Margaret has over 30 years of appellate experience. She is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Associations Appellate Court Committee and served as a consulting editor for the Practical Law Division of Thomson Reuters, the world’s largest publisher of legal reference materials.

Mary has extensive appellate experience in both state and federal courts, and clerked at both the trial and appellate levels, for the Honorable Todd E. Edelman of the District of Columbia Superior Court and the Honorable Corinne A. Beckwith of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Mary is a member of the Florida Bar’s Appellate Practice Section and has been named a Super Lawyer Rising Star each year since 2019. She is barred in both New York and Florida.

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