Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Morgan currently serves as co-chair of the firm’s national product liability practice.  Over his three-plus decades of practice, Morgan has represented clients across multiple sectors in a wide array of complex product liability, intellectual property, and commercial litigation matters, including commercial real estate disputes, in state and federal courts throughout the country.  For the last decade, Morgan’s practice has focused on representing a Fortune 200 consumer products company embroiled in talcum powder litigation.  Morgan has led teams that obtained the first Frye and Daubert exclusion orders in multiple courts throughout the country against key liability experts proffered by the plaintiffs.  Morgan has also led teams that secured some of the first summary judgment victories for a cosmetic talcum powder manufacturer.  He participated on trial teams that obtained jury defense verdicts in four cases against the same talcum powder manufacturer.

In the intellectual property space, Morgan has obtained favorable jury verdicts for both plaintiff-patentees and accused patent infringers and obtained and staved off injunctive relief in trademark, copyright and trade secret cases.  He has also represented claimants and  served as an expert witness in International Chamber of Commerce arbitrations involving intellectual property disputes.  He recently obtained summary judgment in federal court for his client on a complaint, filed by a multinational competitor, alleging misappropriation of trade secrets.

Morgan has also represented technology, consumer goods companies and the public sector in a variety of complex litigation matters.  Leading trial teams, Morgan recently obtained jury verdicts for his client, the tenant, in a commercially leasing dispute on all claims and cross-claims including an award of compensatory damages, punitive damages and prevailing party attorneys’ fees and a judgment on all claims and counterclaims following a bench trial concerning breach of an asset purchase agreement. In addition to litigation, Morgan also regularly counsels clients regarding intellectual property, mass torts,  alternative dispute resolution, and commercial matters.

Morgan recently completed his term on the Board of Governors for the Northern California Chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers (ABTL).  He has served as a faculty member at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) Western Regional Program.  Morgan has served as first chair or co-lead counsel in multiple jury trials in both federal and state courts in actions involving intellectual property, real property and personal injuries.  Morgan also served as a pro bono prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorneys’ Office where he tried four jury cases.  Morgan has been named multiple times by Law & Politics magazine to the “Northern California Super Lawyers” list for Intellectual Property Litigators.