About Hollis L.
Hollis L. Hyans built his legal foundation at Brooklyn College, where he earned a B.A. in 1973, and at New York University School of Law, receiving his J.D. in 1980. Those academic credentials set the stage for a long career in New York law. He is a member of the State Bar of New York and has practiced through decades of change in the profession.
Hyans’s career includes a partnership at Morrison & Foerster LLP. Over the years he has worked in the structures of a large national firm. In that role he has served corporate and individual clients on matters brought in New York courts and regulatory settings. Partners at firms of that scale typically balance client work, firm governance and mentoring junior lawyers; Hyans’s tenure suggests sustained involvement in those activities.
Colleagues describe the day-to-day work of senior partners as a mix of drafting, negotiation and courtroom appearances when cases require litigation. Hyans’s education and long service place him among lawyers who came of age in the 1980s and continued through major shifts in practice, including the expansion of complex commercial practice and regulatory oversight. That history means he brings institutional knowledge about how large firms operate across transactional and dispute contexts.
He has maintained a base in New York throughout his career. That local anchoring is reflected in his membership in the State Bar of New York and in the types of matters commonly handled by lawyers at national firms with significant New York practices. Hyans’s background — a public college undergraduate education followed by a New York law degree and a long partnership at a major firm — maps a path familiar to many senior lawyers in the market.
In practice today Hyans remains a partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP. He continues to work on matters arising under New York law and to contribute to the firm’s client services and internal practice development.
