Morgan Forsey

Associate

Overview
Experience
Honors
Memberships
Articles
Speeches

Morgan Forsey is an associate in the Labor and Employment and Business Trial Practice groups in the firm's San Francisco office.

Areas of Practice

Ms. Forsey's labor and employment practice focuses on representation of employers in wage and hour class action, employment discrimination, retaliatory termination, work place violence, harassment, prevailing wage and unfair labor practice matters. She regularly represents employers in matters before the DLSE, WCAP, DFEH and EEOC, and assists employers in handling regularity audits and DOJ investigations.

Ms. Forsey also provides strategic advice to employers on a full spectrum of employment compliance issues, including wage and hour compliance, employee terminations, responding to employee leave requests, trade secret theft and employee privacy. She also advises employers on handbook preparation, employment contracts and other personnel policies.

Education

J.D., University of California, Davis, King Hall, 2005
B.F.A., North Carolina School of the Arts
Managing Editor, U.C. Davis Journal of International Law and Policy

Admissions

California
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Ms. Forsey specializes in labor and employment matters on behalf of management. She has significant experience in defending class action lawsuits covering a broad range of claims, such as employee misclassification, meal and rest period violations, overtime, vacation pay, and business expense reimbursements. Ms. Forsey also has significant experience with single plaintiff cases. She has successfully defended employers in various types of labor and employment disputes, including matters involving allegations of harassment, retaliation, and discrimination based on age, sex, race, sexual orientation, national origin, and disability, as well as alleged wage and hour violations, California Labor Code violations, FMLA and WARN Act violations, whistleblower and breach of contract claims. She represents employers in a number of industries, including hospitality, hospitals, communications and media, retail, transportation, construction and security in both union and non-union environments. Ms. Forsey also represents employers before administrative agencies such as the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, the Department of Labor and the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.

Ms. Forsey 's business trials practice includes all aspects of general and complex commercial litigation, with experience in business torts, trademark, trade secrets, contract disputes, insurance and toxic torts.

Honors

Witkin Award for Excellence in Remedies taught by former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso
Honorable Patricia Herron and Honorable Ellen James Scholarship from the Contra Costa County Bar Association Women's Section
Elected to the U.C. Davis Trial Practice Honors Board

Memberships

California Bar Association
San Francisco Bar Association
Served as a CASA volunteer in both Alameda and Contra Costa Counties

Articles

Labor & Employment Law Blog Articles

Events

Labor and Employment Law: Mid-Year Update 2009 - Menlo Park, September 30, 2009, Breakfast With Your Labor Lawyer
Pitfalls of Public Works Contracting (And How to Avoid Them) Seminar - Pleasanton, May 15, 2009, Presented by Sheppard Mullin and Heffernan Insurance
Labor and Employment Law: Mid-Year Update 2008 - San Francisco, October 2, 2008, Breakfast With Your Labor Lawyer
Breakfast With Your Labor Lawyer - San Francisco, February 27, 2008
Breakfast With Your Labor Lawyer - Silicon Valley, February 25, 2008