Practice Areas
Honors + Affiliations
The American Lawyer Magazine's Litigation Department of the Year - Labor and Employment Law Finalist 2004, Winner 2006, and Finalist 2008
Listed in the highest tier for National Labor and Employment Practice in Chambers USA 2007
Ranked #1 for "Most Prestigious" Labor and Employment Practice, Vault 2008 Associate Survey
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 (2003–2008)
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (2003–2008)
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
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
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1701 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2921
Phone: 215.963.5376
Fax: 215.963.5001
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 negotiations, and employment litigation. 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 2008, 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 Pennsylania.
Education
- Temple University School of Law, 1978, J.D.
- Pennsylvania State University, 1974, B.A.