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Practices
Morgan Forsey
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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, Managing Editor, U.C. Davis Journal of International Law and Policy, elected to the U.C. Davis Trial Practice Honors Board
- B.F.A., North Carolina School of the Arts
Admissions
- California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern and Eastern District of California
- Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Ms. Forsey has significant wage and hour class action experience covering a broad range of claims, such as employee misclassification, meal and rest period violations, overtime, vacation pay and business expense reimbursements. In the class action context she has represented employers in a number of industries, including hospitals, communications and media, retail and hospitality.
Ms. Forsey 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
Memberships
- Member, California Bar Association
- Served as a CASA volunteer in both Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
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