Morgan Lewis

Areas of Experience

Recent Publications

02/09/12 Current Division of Investment Management Agenda, presented for the PLI Investment Management Institute 2012
02/09/12 Department of State Releases March 2012 Visa Bulletin
DOS Visa Bulletin includes forward movement of four months in the EB-2 category for China and India and a continued backlog in the EB-3 category.
02/09/12 FDA Issues Three Draft Guidances for Biosimilars
Initial guidance provides insights on regulatory pathway for biosimilars, but does not address many critical issues.

Latest News

02/09/12 Morgan Lewis Continues Chicago Expansion with Two ERISA Fiduciary Partners
Morgan Lewis today announced that Marla J. Kreindler and Julie K. Stapel—two well-known ERISA fiduciary lawyers—have joined the firm as partners in its Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice, resident in Chicago.
02/06/12 Morgan Lewis Expands Existing Derivatives and Commodity Futures Platform with Addition of Leading Chicago-based Partner
Morgan Lewis today announces that Michael M. Philipp has joined the firm as a partner in its Financial Services, Investment Management and Securities Industry practice, resident in Chicago.
02/02/12 Q&A With Morgan Lewis' Eric Stern, Law360
Morgan Lewis partner Eric Stern is interviewed about his real estate practice for Law360 .

Upcoming Events

02/14/12 The Hidden Employee Benefit Liabilities of Private Equity Investments
Craig A. Bitman, Althea R. Day, and Amy Pocino Kelly, presenters
02/14/12 Bloomberg BNA Webinar: Unique Challenges of Compensating Executives in Tax Exempt Organizations
Robert Abramowitz, presenter
02/16/12 Lifting As We Climb: Black History Month Diversity Symposium, presented by the Golden Gate University Black Law Students Association San Francisco
Julius Turman, speaker, "Navigating Your Career: Know Your Worth"; Daniel Johnson, Jr., speaker, "Broadening Our Lenses to Legal Careers"

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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

Our strength comes from the caliber of our lawyers. Many of our lawyers have held senior positions with the U.S. antitrust enforcement agencies, including Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission, and Director of Office of Planning and Evaluation of the FTC.
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Climate Change

Evolving national policy on global climate change challenges businesses to adapt to developing environmental regulations and to capitalize on related financial benefits—from government funding for clean technology projects to economic incentives for energy conservation and emissions reductions. Morgan Lewis is positioned to help companies across all industries and regions respond to these challenges.
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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.
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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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Immigration & Nationality Services

MLR’s 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 in a cost-effective manner.
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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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Investment Management

Our interdisciplinary approach to counseling clients combines the knowledge of lawyers familiar with the federal and state securities laws, ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, commodities regulation, federal and state banking and insurance laws, and foreign securities laws.
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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 an innovative approach to today's changing legal landscape: one-stop shopping, competitive pricing, and sophisticated technology. We leverage the collective legal wisdom of our firm to offer clients high-quality and cost-saving enhancements to core services, including:
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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

Known for our efficiency in handling transactions of all sizes and degrees of complexity, our Real Estate Practice covers both coasts and assists our clients across the country wherever their business needs may take them.
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Tax

Helping our clients minimize the federal, state, and foreign taxes associated with their transactions and ongoing business operations, and resolve disputes with taxing authorities.
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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.

  • Some 1,300 lawyers as well as patent agents, employee benefits advisors, regulatory scientists, and other specialists—nearly 3,000 professionals total—serve clients from our 22 offices throughout the world.
  • 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.