21st century
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius originally held the domain name MLB.com, which it transferred to Major League Baseball in September 2000.[16] MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, elected in 2015, is an alumnus of the firm.[17]
In 2012, Ted Cruz, a Morgan Lewis partner and head of the U.S. Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation practice, left Morgan Lewis upon becoming a United States Senator.[18][19]
Jami McKeon, who joined the firm in 1981, became its first female chair in 2014. Re-elected in 2018, under her leadership, Morgan Lewis expanded into one of the largest law firms in the world,[20][21][22] and received annual Gold Standard Certification from the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF).[23] McKeon's term as chair concludes in September 2026.[24]
In 2015, Morgan Lewis filed a historic amicus brief for the definitive Supreme Court case of Obergefell v. Hodges, on behalf of 379 companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Walmart, JPMorgan Chase, and the New England Patriots,[25] which argued "a business case for legalizing same-sex marriage across the country."[26][27] The firm is an affiliate firm of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA).[28]
In February 2018, Morgan Lewis published findings of its investigation into sexual harassment at NPR, led by labor and employment partner Grace Speights. The findings precipitated the resignation of NPR's senior vice-president of news, Michael Oreskes.[29][30] That April, former Morgan Lewis partner John Ring was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for a seat on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), one of several firm partners who have served on the NLRB, including Harry Johnson and senior counsel Charles Cohen,[31] and, later, Crystal Carey, confirmed as its general counsel in late 2025.[32] Following his NLRB tenure, in 2023, Ring resumed practicing at Morgan Lewis.[33]
In March 2019, Chai Feldblum, former Equal Employment Opportunity Commission member and lead drafter of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act,[34] became a partner of Morgan Lewis.[35]
In November 2023, amid clashes at some universities following the start of the 2023 Israel-Hamas war; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius was among more than two dozen law firms that submitted a letter to 14 American law school deans, denouncing anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and racism, and advising those mentoring future law graduates of entrenched workplace policies against harassment or discrimination at their firms.[36]
Morgan Lewis announced a strategic partnership, in December 2023, to furnish input and beta testing, aimed at helping to shape legal AI tools in development by Thomson Reuters.[37]
Morgan Lewis unanimously elected the head of its employment practice, David A. McManus, to a five-year term as chair, in March 2026. The 30-year firm veteran assumes leadership on October 1.[38]
