Neil A. Morris

Neil A. Morris is chair of the firm's Philadelphia Labor and Employment Practice Group. Neil has passionately represented employers for over 40 years. He concentrates in the areas of labor and employment, municipal labor law, employment discrimination, defamation defense, commercial litigation, and business litigation. He has served as special/labor counsel for more than 40 Pennsylvania Townships and Boroughs, the County of Bucks, and many private employers. He is often brought into municipalities to handle "crisis" situations involving employees and management.

Neil has handled cases throughout the country including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, and West Virginia. In 1999, he achieved one of the highest defamation jury awards ever in Pennsylvania for a business client. Neil also has extensive appellate experience arguing appellate cases before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Superior Court, and Commonwealth Court as well as various Federal District Courts and before the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third, Fourth, and Tenth Circuits. He has also argued successfully before the Mississippi Supreme Court.

Additionally, Neil practices before many federal and state administrative agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, the United States Department of Labor, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.