Alison C. Morris
Associate
Duane Morris LLP
30 South 17th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196
USA
Phone: +1 215 979 1284
Fax: +1 215 827 5542
Email: ACMorris@duanemorris.com

Alison C. Morris practices in the area of employment law, counseling employers in all aspects of the employment relationship. Her experience includes drafting employee handbooks, independent contractor agreements and severance agreements; litigating employment discrimination matters, ERISA matters, wage-and-hour matters and collective actions; and representing employers in collective bargaining negotiations, representation disputes, unfair labor practice charges, grievances and arbitrations, and interest arbitrations.

Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Morris served as judicial law clerk to the Hon. Robert G. Millenky of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Civil Division.

Ms. Morris is a 2009 graduate of Rutgers School of Law – Camden, where she was the recipient of the Paul C. Ireton Award for highest cumulative grade point average of the Class of 2009, associate managing editor of the Rutgers Law Journal, and a participant in Hunter Moot Court. Ms. Morris received her bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2005 from The College of New Jersey.

Areas of Practice

• Employment Law

Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania Supreme Court
• New Jersey Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Education

• Rutgers School of Law - Camden, J.D., with highest honors, 2009
  - Associate Managing Editor, Rutgers Law Journal
• The College of New Jersey, B.A., 2005

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Associate, 2012-present
• Ballard Spahr LLP
  - Associate, 2010-2012
• Superior Court of New Jersey, Civil Division
  - Judicial Law Clerk to the Hon. Robert G. Millenky, 2009-2010

Selected Publications

• Author, "U.S. Supreme Court Finds Affirmative Action Admission Policies Unconstitutional Absent Passing Strict Scrutiny Standards," Duane Morris Alert, June 25, 2013
• Co-author, "DOL Issues Final FMLA Regulations," Duane Morris Alert, February 25, 2013
• Author, "National Labor Relations Board Launches Website to Educate Nonunion Employees," Duane Morris Alert, June 29, 2012
• Co-author, "Representing the Company and Its Constituents," New Jersey Lawyer, December 2011
• Contributing author, "Employee Benefits and the Unionized Workforce," Chapter 14 in ERISA—A Comprehensive Guide, Aspen Publishers, Inc., 4th Edition, 2011
• Co-author, "An Activist National Labor Relations Board and Department of Labor," ASHHRA Report, Fall 2011