Champions Of Labor For More Than 40 Years

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New York, NY

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212-652-3891

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Attentive counsel and creative advocacy.

Katherine M. Morgan is thorough and resourceful in helping clients create effective legal arguments to establish, bolster and defend their positions. She is highly attentive to detail, and clients benefit greatly from her careful listening, incisive memory, meticulous examination of documents and records, and her deft application of the law to a particular factual landscape.

Ms. Morgan represents collective bargaining units and their associated benefit funds in various ERISA and labor law matters, as well as employment law matters.

Clients typically engage Ms. Morgan to represent them in:

  • ERISA litigation and collection actions.
  • Arbitrations under their collective bargaining agreements, including contract interpretations, employee benefit issues and grievance mediations.
  • Railway Labor Act matters.
  • Internal grievance.
  • Bankruptcy actions in which they are creditors.
  • NLRB, EEOC and NY Human Rights Division proceedings concerning duty of fair representation issues, elections, employment discrimination claims and unfair labor practices claims.

Areas Of Practice

  • Labor & Employee Benefits
  • Litigation

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit

Education

  • Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York
    • J.D.
    • Honors: Moot Court Honor Society
    • Law Journal, Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Articles Editor
  • Bucknell University
    • B.A.
    • Honors: cum laude

Professional Associations And Memberships

  • New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Section

Published Works

  • “The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Towards a Definition of ‘Foreign Official’,” Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Fall 2012