Feuer goes back to roots to grow his new practice. (Law).

FORMER L.A. City Councilman Mike Feuer's decision to join Morrison & Foerster LLP may at first appear as though he's going back to where he started.

For one, Feuer will work with many of the same attorneys he was with at Hufstedler Miller Carlson & Beardsley, where he started his career. But as an attorney of counsel at Morrison Foerster's L.A. office, Feuer will pursue public issues like fiscal responsibility, real estate, environment and public safety. And he will build a legislative and regulatory practice.

"I have been doing commentaries on the radio, I work on TV and am asked by my former colleagues to assist on issues," said Feuer, who lost to Deputy Mayor Rocky Delgadillo in the race for L.A. City Attorney this year. "I'll want to continue those pursuits on a wide array of issues. While at the same time Morrison & Foerster enables me to return to my roots."

Right now, the firm's legislative and regulatory practices are principally in Sacramento and Washington, said Maren Nelson, chairperson of litigation at Morrison & Foerster in Los Angeles, where the focus is mostly on litigation and high tech clients.

Much of the new practice's development will be based on Feuer himself. "It will be a question of what Mike's clients are interested in," she said. "It'll be a new venture for Mike and an expansion of the Washington and Sacramento practice."