Orange County

The Morgan Lewis team in Orange County is committed to making a difference in everything we do. We support our clients in labor and employment litigation and counseling, complex commercial litigation, intellectual property matters, and a broad array of corporate dealmaking, and we draw on the resources and talents of our colleagues across 30 additional offices around the globe to provide counsel on the full spectrum of legal issues. 

Our business and finance lawyers are widely recognized for their work on a range of corporate transactional matters, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity financings, and initial public offerings and other corporate financings across many industries. We counsel companies, emerging growth, middle market, and public companies, as well as venture capital and private equity firms, family offices, and other investors through all stages of the business and investment life cycle.

Our labor and employment lawyers advise clients on the full range of workplace issues, especially those arising from California’s unique employee-friendly landscape. We defend employers in litigation involving issues of the Fair Labor Standards Act, wage and hour law, employment discrimination, wrongful termination, workplace harassment, trade secrets and restrictive covenants, and other employment-related claims brought in federal, state, and administrative forums.

The litigation team in Orange County handles complex business disputes and trials in a wide range of subject areas, including crisis litigation, product liability and mass torts, consumer class actions, and sophisticated commercial matters. This deep bench of trial lawyers includes industry- and peer-recognized lawyers with reputations for creativity and efficiency who have achieved groundbreaking results in the courtroom in some of the most high-profile matters in recent history. Our litigators also regularly counsel clients on regulatory and risk assessment issues to enable them to resolve issues before they reach the courthouse. 

Offering a suite of intellectual property and patent capabilities, our IP team advises on brand and product innovation, privacy and cybersecurity, trademark, copyright, advertising, and unfair competition.