Stephen L. Taeusch is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Labor and Employment Practice. Mr. Taeusch represents employers in a wide variety of employment-related matters, including wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, unfair business practices, and retaliation in single and multi-plaintiff litigation. Mr. Taeusch's wage and hour class action experience includes defending employers in various industries.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Taeusch was an associate in the Labor and Employment practice of an international law firm. His practice focused primarily on single plaintiff cases and counseling employers on such issues as state and federal agency audits, employee and contractor classification, employment policies, employment contracts, reductions in force, and terminations. Mr. Taeusch also worked on wage and hour class actions.
Mr. Taeusch earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School in 2006, where he was the symposium editor of the Cornell Law Review and was named to the Order of the Coif. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Taeusch worked as a writer and editor for a variety of technology startup companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Taeusch earned his M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College in 1996 and his B.A., magna cum laude, in American literature and Spanish from Middlebury College in 1990, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Mr. Taeusch is admitted to practice in California and before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Eastern Districts of California.
Finalist, The Recorder’s Litigation Department of the Year – Labor and Employment (2013)