Morgan Lewis

Areas of Experience

Recent Publications

05/22/13 SEC Eyes Advisory Contract Approval Disclosures, Law360
(pdf)
05/22/13 Department of State Releases June 2013 Visa Bulletin
EB-2 category for all chargeable areas other than China and India remains current, with considerable forward movement—but continued backlog—in the EB-3 category for a second month in a row.
05/21/13 Texas Enacts Uniform Trade Secrets Act
New statute aims to promote favorable business climate and may provide broader protection of information under Texas law.

Upcoming Events

05/22/13-05/23/13 Euromoney Seminars’ 5th Annual Syndicated Loans Russia & CIS Conference
Bruce Johnston, moderator
05/23/13 2013 Labor and Employment Summer Webinar Series: Wage and Hour Hot Topics
Eric Meckley, Joel Allen, Melissa Rodriguez, and Sean Lynch, presenters
05/29/13 Immigration Reform: What It May Mean for Your Business
Eleanor Pelta, Eric S. Bord, Lisa Stephanian Burton, Malcolm K. Goeschl, Timothy P. Lynch, and A. James Vázquez-Azpiri, speakers

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Advertising, Consumer Protection, & Privacy

Morgan Lewis's Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Privacy Practice consists of more than 40 lawyers and legal professionals serving clients in a broad range of industries. Our team advises on and litigates U.S. federal and state false advertising and unfair competition investigations and claims brought not only by competitors and consumer classes but by state and federal enforcement agencies.
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Antitrust

Morgan Lewis’s Antitrust Practice is one of the largest and most diversified in the world. Our Antitrust Practice is distinguished by its substantial scope and depth, our base of knowledge and experience, and our international capability. We provide the full spectrum of antitrust services, from preventive counseling to advice on complex issues to defense of "bet the company" litigation.
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Climate Change

The global political and scientific responses to climate change pose both tremendous uncertainty and significant opportunity for business, and Morgan Lewis is positioned to assist companies in either circumstance. We help clients adapt to a new world of regulations, and capitalize on public and private resources available for clean technology, energy conservation, and emissions reductions. This work includes counseling on carbon trading programs, and on corporate disclosures of climate change risks.
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eData

With the majority of corporate business information now in electronic form, many companies are struggling to manage increasingly large volumes of data. Morgan Lewis's eData Practice partners with clients' in-house legal and IT teams to create customized records-management systems that reduce regulatory and litigation risks, streamline discovery processes, and cost effectively serve each company's long-term business objectives. The overarching goal is to turn electronic data into an advantage, rather than a liability.
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Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

From qualified retirement plans to sophisticated equity compensation arrangements, and from executive employment agreements to broad-based health and welfare plans, the members of the Employee Benefits Practice combine a wealth of practice experience with cutting-edge knowledge management technology. We provide clients with high-quality and efficient services that lead to practical solutions.
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Energy

For more than a century, major domestic and international entities in every sector of the energy market—electric, nuclear, oil and natural gas, renewable energy (including wind energy), and water—have turned to Morgan Lewis for a broad range of corporate, finance, transactional, regulatory, and litigation services.
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Environmental

Morgan Lewis’s Environmental Practice helps deliver creative solutions to help clients meet their legal needs in litigation, transactional, or regulatory matters. As one of the first major law firms in the country to establish an environmental practice, Morgan Lewis offers a depth of substantive industry knowledge, government access and professional credibility rivaled by few law firms. 
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FDA & Healthcare

Health industry sectors are becoming increasingly interconnected and the laws governing them are closely linked. Providing effective and efficient legal services to the health industry requires integrated legal advice that addresses different regulatory structures and emerging industry developments.
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Government Contracting

Morgan Lewis' government contracts practice is composed of attorneys with decades of experience in diverse areas of the practice—defense, energy, healthcare, commercial item procurement, government relations and public policy, litigation, international trade, and labor and employment. Our knowledge of the legal, regulatory, and political workings of the $320 billion public procurement sector helps clients cut costs and risk—and gain the best possible advantage—in transactions, in disputes, and in strategic business planning related to government contracts.
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Immigration & Nationality Services

The Immigration & Nationality Practice combines the legal talents of one of this country’s most experienced teams of business immigration attorneys and paraprofessionals with cutting-edge, web-based technology to provide clients with extraordinary service and advice. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide clients with both the international resources of a top-tier law firm and the highly specialized competency of a dedicated immigration team.
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Industry Coverage

By organizing teams around our clients' business and legal needs, Morgan Lewis is uniquely situated to cover the full range of issues facing businesses in rapidly evolving and changing environments. Our multidisciplinary practice initiatives focus on the needs of specific industries.
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Intellectual Property

Morgan Lewis is a leading choice for businesses seeking protection of valuable intellectual property rights. With more than 190 intellectual property professionals and technical specialists, unlike smaller boutique firms, Morgan Lewis brings to bear the considerable resources of one of the largest law firms in the United States.
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International Trade & Economic Sanctions

We help clients untangle the web of international trade regulations and provide representation in connection with Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations and anti-boycott laws; customs classification, valuation, reduction and elimination; export licensing and other export controls involving compliance under the Export Administration Act, Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations, International Traffic in Arms Regulations, Trading with the Enemy Act and International Economic Emergency Powers Act; and antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings.
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Latin America

International knowledge and experience are the two cornerstones of Morgan Lewis’s Latin America Team. Through our lawyers’ representation of clients in virtually every Latin American country, our Latin America Team has developed an in-depth understanding of the nuances of Latin American business practices, laws, and cultures.
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Life Sciences

With more than 200 lawyers, scientists and other technical specialists who focus on the life sciences industry, we have one of the most comprehensive practices of any U.S. law firm. Unlike other law firms, we understand the scientific, business, and regulatory issues that our clients face and have expanded our practice to include more than 60 professionals with advanced life sciences degrees.
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Morgan Lewis Resources Workplace Training

Morgan Lewis Resources Workplace Training offers highly interactive training programs that translate business and legal standards into practical guidelines for participants. Our training programs, led by experienced attorneys and dynamic trainers, provide supervisors, managers and human resource professionals the knowledge and skills necessary to respond to the challenges that govern today's workplace.
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Personal Law

The Personal Law Practice addresses the legal and financial interests of individuals, family businesses and nonprofit organizations. The practice is devoted to the representation of individuals and family groups of substantial wealth in connection with estate and gift tax planning, family business succession planning, philanthropic planning and management of personal financial interests on a national and international scale.
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Real Estate

Our Real Estate Practice covers both coasts and assists our clients across the country wherever their business needs may take them. Known for our efficiency in handling transactions of all sizes and degrees of complexity, we represent major corporations, regional and national developers, REITs, private equity funds, institutional lenders, investors, pension funds and advisers, and special servicers in connection with their ownership, use, and financing of real estate.
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Tax

Morgan Lewis's Tax Practice is focused on helping our clients minimize the federal, state, and foreign taxes associated with their transactions and ongoing business operations, and resolve disputes with taxing authorities. We are well qualified to advise on the most complicated tax issues and offer practical and efficient solutions.
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Washington Government Relations & Public Policy

A diverse group of lawyers with senior-level executive branch and government regulatory agency backgrounds forms the core of Morgan Lewis's Washington, D.C. Government Relations and Public Policy Practice. The group leverages its firsthand Washington knowledge and insight to craft and execute legal strategies for navigating complex legal, regulatory, and legislative challenges. Attorneys in this practice are particularly focused on helping clients anticipate—and succeed amid—legislative and regulatory change and heightened Congressional oversight.
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At Morgan Lewis, we distinguish ourselves from other firms by offering our clients particularly strong resources in many disciplines. Our international breadth and depth of practice enable us to handle the most complex matters and solve our clients' problems as a seamless team.

  • Founded in 1873, Morgan Lewis offers more than 1,600 legal professionals—including lawyers, patent agents, benefits advisers, regulatory scientists, and other specialists—in 24 offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
  • Clients include more than half of the Fortune 100 companies, including 9 of the top 10 and 16 of the top 20.
  • More than 2,000 clients have been with the firm for more than 5 years.
  • Approximately 2,000 new clients and 20,000 new projects each year.
  • Lawyers and support staff fluent in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish.