Morgan Lewis is recognized for exceptional client service, legal innovation, and commitment to its communities. Our global reach stretches across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East with the collaboration of more than 2,200 lawyers and specialists who provide elite legal services across industry sectors for multinational corporations to startups around the world. Morgan Lewis has been ranked every year since 2002 among an elite group of 30 firms singled out by corporate counsel for client service excellence in the BTI Client Service A-Team guide; Vault has named Morgan Lewis among the top 100 most prestigious law firms since 2014; and The American Lawyer has named Morgan Lewis among its A-List Law Firms.

PHILADELPHIA OFFICE: Since our founding in Philadelphia in 1873, Morgan Lewis has been the law firm that local, regional, and global businesses turn to as they navigate the world's rapidly changing economy. We have earned our reputation as the leading global law firm in Philadelphia, and a market leader across the full spectrum of legal services. The collaborative culture of the firm is rooted in our long history of caring deeply about our peers, our clients, and our community. Our lawyers represent clients in cutting-edge matters throughout the region, the country, and the world. We advise emerging growth, financial services, energy, life sciences, media, private investment fund, retail, and technology companies, both public and private. Our dedication to client service is reflected in long-standing relationships—some of which date back to the turn of the last century. Whether they operate primarily in the Delaware Valley, or cover global markets, these companies look to Morgan Lewis both in Philadelphia and as a portal to all the resources our clients expect from a market-leading global law firm. Our Philadelphia attorneys practice in the following key areas: antitrust, corporate & business transactions, employee benefits, energy, finance, intellectual property, investment management, labor and employment, litigation, private client, and tax.

ASSOCIATE DEVELOPMENT:  Morgan Lewis is focused on providing our associates with the opportunities and tools for success. Our comprehensive training programs reflect the firm’s belief that professional development is a career-long process. Our professional development program was structured around the firm’s expectations for each phase of an associate’s career, starting as early as the Summer Program Kickoff and continuing through our Senior Associate Academy. We do this through firmwide and practice-specific training curricula which are tied to our core competency model, mentoring program, practice group based assignment processes, individual development goals, and a substantive annual review and evaluation process that focuses on past performance and areas for development and growth.

PRO BONO: At Morgan Lewis, we have a deep and longstanding commitment to pro bono work. We recognize that it is our responsibility to provide legal services to those in our communities who otherwise could not afford them. We have committed to contribute, at a minimum, 3% of the firm’s total billable hours to pro bono work, and we count pro bono hours and billable hours the same when measuring the billable-hour commitment of our lawyers. In 2023, Morgan Lewis lawyers firmwide contributed more than 115,000 hours to pro bono representations. Our firm has five full-time pro bono counsel who handle the day-to-day administration of the pro bono practice and work to advance the quality of pro bono opportunities for our lawyers.

WORK/LIFE HARMONY: At Morgan Lewis, our goal is to embed well-being and engagement into the fabric of our culture. We are committed to providing a variety of tools and resources to meet the unique needs of all individuals and empower everyone at our firm to thrive. ML Well is a unique, holistic approach to promoting thriving through intellectual, physical, emotional, and occupational well-being coupled with an underlying emphasis on engagement and community. Offerings through our firmwide well-being initiative, ML Well, such as live guided meditation classes, well-being seminars and workshops, and firmwide fitness challenges, as well as ongoing well-being education rooted in the science of positive psychology, enforce the firm’s belief that well-being is paramount to both individual and firm success. Because there is no one-size-fits-all approach to well-being, ML Well aims to enable our lawyers and professional staff to find what uniquely works best for them as individuals.

Morgan Lewis’s “Return to Work Program,” a joint initiative of the firm’s Associate Talent Team, Human Resources and the Returning to Work Affinity Group, provides support, mentorship, and networking opportunities for associates returning to work from an extended leave. This program also provides “Ramp Down” and “Ramp Up” billable hours credit during the periods of time leading up to and returning from a qualifying leave of absence.

DIVERSITY: At Morgan Lewis, we know that moving the needle on diversity and inclusion (D&I) takes purposeful effort, consistency, and communication. We are dedicated to D&I because it is integral to how we do business. D&I influences how we service clients, collaborate with colleagues, and engage talented lawyers and professional staff, as well as how we engage the global communities where we live and work.

From Firm Chair Jami McKeon, to practice leaders, to office managing partners and members of the C-suite, the diversity of our partners who serve in senior leadership roles delivers the clearest possible message: all lawyers have every opportunity for career development, advancement, and promotion at Morgan Lewis.

It is worth noting that . . .

• Morgan Lewis is one of the world’s largest law firms chaired by a woman. Chair Jami McKeon was elected by the partnership to a third term extending through September 2026.
• Our labor and employment practice, comprising more than 300 lawyers, is led by a Black woman.
• 50% of our Management Committee members are from an underrepresented demographic*
• 36% of our Advisory Board members are from an underrepresented demographic*
• 43% of our Compensation Committee members are from an underrepresented demographic*
• 37% of our Practice Group Leaders are from an underrepresented demographic*
• 62% of our Office Managing Partners are from an underrepresented demographic*
• 54% of our Industry Team Leaders are from an underrepresented demographic*
• 63% of our Hiring Partners are from an underrepresented demographic*
• 83% of our Office of General Counsel are from an underrepresented demographic*
• 56% of our 2023 partnership class are from an underrepresented demographic*
• 100% of our 2023 of counsel class are from an underrepresented demographic*
• 79% of our Chiefs and Firmwide Senior Directors are from an underrepresented demographic*
• 52% of our 2023 fall associate class are persons of color, LGBTQ+, disabled, and/or veterans
• 62% of our 2023 summer associate class are persons of color, LGBTQ+, disabled, and/or veterans

*Underrepresented demographic includes all women; persons of color, including those who self-identify as Middle Eastern or North African; LGBTQ+; disabled; veterans; and/or non-binary—counting each person only once.

SUMMER PROGRAM: Morgan Lewis’s summer program runs for 10 weeks and kicks off with a firmwide multiday gathering of summer associates, hiring partners, firm leaders and select lawyers. Our program provides a clear sense of firm culture, market-leading practices and our commitment to well-being, diversity and inclusion and pro bono. In addition to providing interesting and challenging work assignments throughout the program, our Summer Academy training curriculum will include a balance of practice training as well as broader professional skills and development programming. The firm builds in many engaging social activities so that summer associates can interact with our lawyers and each other. Relationships are key at Morgan Lewis.

Our 2023 summer program provided substantive training, challenging client work, and multiple social touchpoints with lawyers across all offices. Our program also includes a robust mentorship component of the summer program, including connections with partners on the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion committee and affinity group networks. The firm looks forward to another successful program in 2024.