Overview

Morgan Suder is a partner in the firm’s Employment Law group. Her practice is focused on representing employers in a variety of employment disputes, including wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, failure to accommodate, and wage and hour litigation. Morgan practices in both state and federal courts. She handles cases at all stages of litigation, including through trial and appeal. She has also represented clients in charges filed with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. In addition to litigation, Morgan advises clients on a broad range of employment-related issues and conducts supervisor training and employee handbook reviews.

Morgan practiced labor and employment law at Wilson Turner Kosmo from 2013 to 2019. She rejoined the firm in 2024 after serving for four and half years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California. During her time there, she defended the United States in a wide variety of civil litigation matters involving employment discrimination, medical malpractice, personal injury, and constitutional tort claims. She received excellent results on behalf of the United States, including prevailing on numerous motions for summary judgment and at trial, including serving as first-chair in a four-day trial in which a federal jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the United States. Her collateral duties included creating and presenting office-wide workplace conduct trainings, and serving as the Civil eLitigation Coordinator, the Anti-Harassment Point-of-Contact, a Special Emphasis Program Manager for the Federal Women’s Program, and a mentor for the Department of Justice’s Mentorship Program. In 2021, she received the Rookie of the Year Award for her outstanding contributions to the office’s mission in her first year of service.

She also previously served as a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Anthony J. Battaglia in the Southern District of California and the Honorable J. Michael Seabright in the District of Hawaii.

Morgan received her B.S., with honors, from the University of Texas at Austin, and her J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law, where she was Comment Editor of the San Diego Law Review, National Team Competitor and member of the USD Appellate Moot Court Executive Board, and Chair of the American Bar Association Law Student Division. Her article was selected for publication in the 2012 edition of the San Diego Law Review. In 2023, she received the USD School of Law’s 2023 Rising Star Recent Alumni Award.

As an active member of the San Diego legal community, Morgan served on the San Diego Chapter of the Federal Bar Association’s Board of Directors from 2016 to 2018, and she will be serving on the Advisory Board from 2024 to 2026. She also co-chaired the Chapter’s Annual Conferences from 2018 to 2020. In 2021, she was awarded the FBA’s Distinguished Service Award.

In addition to her FBA leadership, Morgan has been a member of several San Diego law associations including Lawyers Club of San Diego, the San Diego County Bar Association, and the Louis M. Welsh Inn of the American Inns of Court. She also served on the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program’s Women and Families Resource Fair Task Force and was a volunteer instructor for Project LEAD, which is a law-related elementary education program.