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.
- Temple University (J.D.)
- Temple University (B.A., cum laude)
- Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- United States District Court for the District of Colorado
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Philadelphia Bar Association
- Bucks County Bar Association
- Temple American Inn of Court
- American Arbitration Association
- Temple Law Alumni Association
- PA State Association of Township Supervisors (PSATS)
- Named to The Best Lawyers in America® for Litigation - Labor and Employment (2012-2026)
- Designated as one of Pennsylvania's Super Lawyers in labor and employment law by Philadelphia Magazine
- Master at the Temple American Inn of Court 2007-2020
- Smart CEO, Philadelphia Lawyer of the Year Finalist, 2014
- Judge Pro Tempore and Settlement Master by the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, PA, 1997-2006
- Appreciation Award from New Britain Township, 2004, "For Accomplishing Feats of Biblical Proportions"
- Lawyers.com/ Martindale Hubbell, Highest Peer Rating (AV)
