Morgan, Lewis & Bockius |

From our 30 offices* in North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and with a footprint across Africa and Latin America, we work with clients ranging from established, global Fortune 100 companies to enterprising startups. We provide comprehensive litigation, corporate, finance, restructuring, employment and benefits, and intellectual property services in all major industries, helping clients to anticipate, address, and overcome challenges across vast and rapidly changing landscapes. We approach every representation with an equal commitment to first understanding, and then efficiently and effectively advancing, the interests of our clients to help them arrive at the best results. Our team encompasses more than 2,200 legal professionals, including lawyers, patent agents, employee benefit advisers, regulatory scientists, and other specialists.

Our London office opened in 1981 and since then, we have advised clients on English law–governed transactions, disputes, and regulations in a range of international markets, both established and emerging, with a particular focus on Europe, the Middle East, and Asia (EMEA). Operating as a global hub, we work seamlessly with lawyers throughout EMEA to provide integrated teams for deals and complex litigation. London’s role as a key financial and business centre means that we are well positioned to advise clients around the world on market-leading projects across legal disciplines in finance, corporate transactions, investment funds, international tax, competition, dispute resolution, immigration, and employment that are governed by English law.

Our Philosophy

At Morgan Lewis, we believe that a commitment to diversity and inclusion (D&I) is vital to realizing our true success as a firm. We are dedicated to D&I not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it is integral to how we succeed for clients. It influences how we serve clients, collaborate with colleagues, and recruit, retain, and promote talented lawyers and professional staff, as well as how we engage the global communities where we live and work.

Inclusive Recruiting

Advancing diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the legal profession means nurturing the diversity of pipeline talent. We invest in law students, high school students, and underserved communities through a combination of financial aid, mentorship, and critical preparation for success.

Our Talent

What we have believed for decades has become something we know: Teams of top-tier lawyers with diverse backgrounds are more powerful in overcoming our clients’ most pressing challenges. This is why we unceasingly strive to provide the best training, mentoring, access to promotion, and well-being support to cultivate an elite and inclusive workforce.

Mobilizing for Equality

In the sombre aftermath of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer, Morgan Lewis launched Mobilizing for Equality to determine what more we can do as a firm to more directly, effectively, and aggressively mobilize against racial injustice. Firm Chair Jami McKeon and Grace Speights, leader of our global labour and employment practice, lead working groups across the firm curating and taking action on substantive racial and social justice projects.

Our Mobilizing for Equality Leadership Task Force comprises 20 members from all ranks of our firm and around the globe, and encompasses 14 working groups—each tackling racial injustice from a unique angle. Each working group has four or five leaders and dozens of individual volunteers.

Mobilizing For Equality: 2021 Annual Report

Our inaugural MFE annual report shows that we have made great strides toward our ambitious goal of focusing the immense resources of our firm toward creating a more racially just society. The report graphically illustrates some of our meaningful projects and highlights the great work of our hundreds of volunteer lawyers and professional staff, many in cooperation with clients who share our dedication to this effort.

Attracting and developing talented professionals who are committed to excellence is critical to our success. We offer students, trainees and judicial clerks unparalleled opportunities for interesting work, a supportive and collegial environment, and a promising pathway to career development.

Our summer program and trainee program give an immersive experience. We provide real-life insight into the workings of an established, broad reaching law firm and the chance to share our commitment to client, public and community service. Each office creates a unique program of events, giving law students a taste of life and work in that office.

Our summer associates and trainees are given high-quality, challenging assignments and work directly with senior lawyers across practices and industry groups on complex and, frequently, cross-border matters.

We know that former judicial clerks bring valuable real-world experience to our legal practice. Your experience, skills, and knowledge add to our rich and dynamic culture and contribute directly to our ability to meet the diverse needs of our clients. We've established a legacy of attracting and retaining former judicial clerks. Morgan Lewis is proud to have more than 150 former judicial clerks.

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We spend our days representing the kind of clients who expect and demand the best from us. That is why everyone at Morgan Lewis uses their intelligence, legal skills, and training to make a difference—for our clients and for themselves.

We may be a big firm, but our lawyers and staff work in tight-knit teams. We know that fostering an environment where knowledge and innovation are shared and well-being is actively promoted is the only way we can help our clients reach their goals—and it is the only way for us to grow personally and professionally.

We are a culture of collaboration, not competition. We work seamlessly together, across our services and sectors, drawing on our collective breadth, depth, and experience to create powerful solutions for our clients.

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Every person at Morgan Lewis is treated with respect, supported with extensive resources and training, and exposed to a broad range of experiences.

We provide law students, practicing lawyers, and legal professionals with abundant opportunities to share their knowledge and passion for the law with clients and colleagues.

We are committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. Our leadership is actively involved in managing our commitment to diversity and inclusion, and fostering a culture that creates opportunities for everyone, provides a safe and respectful workplace, and prohibits harassment in any form. We apply this same level of commitment in promoting the well-being of our lawyers and professional staff and in serving our communities.