practice areas
practice accolades
The American Lawyer Magazine's Litigation Department of the Year – Labor and Employment Law Finalist 2004, Winner 2006, Finalist 2008, Finalist 2010, and Finalist 2012
Listed in the highest tier for National Labor and Employment Practice in Chambers USA 2011
Ranked in the top tier by The Legal 500 for Labor and Employment Litigation, ERISA Litigation, Labor-Management Relations, and Workplace and Employment Counseling (2011)
Ranked, National Tier 1: Employment Law – Management, U.S. News and Best Lawyers (2010)
Named one of Law360's Employment Groups of the Year (2010)
Ranked #1 for "Most Prestigious" Labor and Employment Practice, Vault 2012 Associate Survey
Ranked, National Tier 1: Labor Law - Management, U.S. News and Best Lawyers (2010)
honors + affiliations
Member, James Beasley School of Law/Temple University, Board of Visitors
Served as 73rd Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association
Former Chairperson, Philadelphia Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section and numerous committees
Served two elected terms, Philadelphia Bar Association, Board of Governors
Former Chair, Board of Governors
Former Vice Chancellor, Philadelphia Bar Association
Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2003–2011)
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (1995–2012)
Listed, Philadelphia Magazine's "Top 100 Lawyers in Philadelphia" (2004)
Noted in The Legal 500 for Labor and Employment—Management Relations (2008)
Recipient, award for "Best Lawyer," Corporate Counsel Magazine
Listed, Pennsylvania Super Lawyers (2004–2009)
bar admissions
- Pennsylvania
- New York
- Philadelphia
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1701 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2921
Phone: 215.963.5376
Fax: 215.963.5001
- New York
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101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10178-0060
Phone: 212.309.6076
Fax: 212.309.6001
Doreen S. Davis is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Labor and Employment Practice. Ms. Davis practices nationwide, concentrating in NLRB advice and litigation, union organizational activities, and collective bargaining. She advises clients on the labor implications of mergers, acquisitions, and plant consolidations and provides strategic advice in corporate campaigns. Ms. Davis has litigated one of the largest cases ever to emanate from the Philadelphia region at the National Labor Relations Board which involved millions of dollars in potential back-pay and the possibility that a business that relocated to Michigan would be ordered back to Wilmington, Delaware. She has served as defense counsel in EEOC nationwide charges involving sex discrimination and in a nationwide class-action lawsuit brought under the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
From 2003 through 2011, Ms. Davis was named one of the leading U.S. lawyers for labor and employment law by Chambers USA, based on the views of clients, peers, and other industry professionals. Chambers called Ms. Davis a "capable, dedicated, and tough" lawyer who "really knows her stuff and is tenacious on behalf of her clients."
Ms. Davis began her career as a field attorney with the National Labor Relations Board, Fourth Region. She lives in Haverford with her husband and fellow labor lawyer Robert Simmons and their born-negotiator, now teenage, daughter, Samantha.
Ms. Davis is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New York.
education
- Temple University School of Law, 1978, J.D.
- Pennsylvania State University, 1974, B.A.