Michael Roster

Michael Roster currently teaches Contract Drafting and Analysis at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and where the goal is for students to be at a first- or second-year lawyer level or higher in contracts by the end of the course. He also is a director of MDRC, a nonprofit corporation that independently evaluates on behalf of foundations, government entities and others the effectiveness of programs affecting lower income individuals and families.  

Roster formerly was managing partner of Morrison & Foerster’s Los Angeles office, co-chair of the firm’s Financial Institutions Practice Group worldwide and a member of the firm’s policy committee. In 1993, Roster was appointed general counsel of Stanford University, Stanford Medical Center and Stanford Management Company. He subsequently was executive vice president and general counsel of Golden West Financial Corporation. 

Roster also has served as chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel, chair of the Stanford Alumni Association, steering committee co-chair of ACC’s Value Challenge, and chair of two start-up companies.