Description Contributors Henry Morris Jr. Henry Morris is Partner at Arent Fox in Washington DC. Mr. Morris focuses his practice on counseling and litigating employment, labor, and education law cases. He has advised clients regarding and handled cases involving equal employment opportunity, employee discipline and discharge, employment torts, breach of contract, trade secrets, non-compete agreements, fair labor standards, plant closings, reductions-in-force, successor employer responsibilities, workers' compensation, and unemployment compensation. Mr. Morris is a member of Arent Fox's Diversity Committee and Employment Committee. Mr. Morris represents clients in a wide range of industries. These industries include retail, education, healthcare, construction, property management, broadcast, communications, entertainment, building service contracting, and hospitality. He also has represented several governmental entities. Mr. Morris is a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. And he is the firm's contact with the Employment Law Alliance, an international consortium of some of the world's leading management-side employment lawyers. Mr. Morris is a frequent lecturer and has written articles on a wide range of labor and employment issues. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and Virginia Bar. He received his JD from Columbia University School of Law in1983, and his AB from Columbia College, Columbia University, in 1978. Shelley Carthen Watson Shelley Carthen Watson, Senior Associate General Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel at the University of Minnesota. Her practice is primarily devoted to providing advice, counsel, and training in labor relations and employment issues, as well as defense of the University in collective bargaining and internal grievance arbitrations, and administrative matters before the EEOC, Minnesota Department of Human Rights and Department of Labor. Prior to coming to the University, Ms. Carthen Watson was a partner with the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, where her practice focused on business litigation and employment counseling and litigation. The former Deputy Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, she also served as Executive Director of the Hennepin County Bar Association and Hennepin County Bar Foundation. An honors graduate of Macalester College, she received her law degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 1985. Ms. Carthen Watson recently served as a member of the Board of Directors of NACUA, and is the recent recipient of their First Decade Award that recognizes university attorneys who have been NACUA members for 10 or fewer years and have made "a significantly innovative contribution, or provided outstanding service, to the association and to the practice." In 2018 she was named a Top Assistant General Counsel by First Chair, an annual selection of in-house counsel who have, through their hard work and innovation, made significant contributions to the legal community, and recently received the 2019 Minnesota Lawyer In-House Counsel Award for attorneys. “who among other things, navigate complicated contract negotiations, defend their companies in high stakes litigation and defend some of an organization’s most important assets.”
Contributors Henry Morris Jr. Henry Morris is Partner at Arent Fox in Washington DC. Mr. Morris focuses his practice on counseling and litigating employment, labor, and education law cases. He has advised clients regarding and handled cases involving equal employment opportunity, employee discipline and discharge, employment torts, breach of contract, trade secrets, non-compete agreements, fair labor standards, plant closings, reductions-in-force, successor employer responsibilities, workers' compensation, and unemployment compensation. Mr. Morris is a member of Arent Fox's Diversity Committee and Employment Committee. Mr. Morris represents clients in a wide range of industries. These industries include retail, education, healthcare, construction, property management, broadcast, communications, entertainment, building service contracting, and hospitality. He also has represented several governmental entities. Mr. Morris is a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. And he is the firm's contact with the Employment Law Alliance, an international consortium of some of the world's leading management-side employment lawyers. Mr. Morris is a frequent lecturer and has written articles on a wide range of labor and employment issues. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and Virginia Bar. He received his JD from Columbia University School of Law in1983, and his AB from Columbia College, Columbia University, in 1978. Shelley Carthen Watson Shelley Carthen Watson, Senior Associate General Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel at the University of Minnesota. Her practice is primarily devoted to providing advice, counsel, and training in labor relations and employment issues, as well as defense of the University in collective bargaining and internal grievance arbitrations, and administrative matters before the EEOC, Minnesota Department of Human Rights and Department of Labor. Prior to coming to the University, Ms. Carthen Watson was a partner with the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, where her practice focused on business litigation and employment counseling and litigation. The former Deputy Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, she also served as Executive Director of the Hennepin County Bar Association and Hennepin County Bar Foundation. An honors graduate of Macalester College, she received her law degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 1985. Ms. Carthen Watson recently served as a member of the Board of Directors of NACUA, and is the recent recipient of their First Decade Award that recognizes university attorneys who have been NACUA members for 10 or fewer years and have made "a significantly innovative contribution, or provided outstanding service, to the association and to the practice." In 2018 she was named a Top Assistant General Counsel by First Chair, an annual selection of in-house counsel who have, through their hard work and innovation, made significant contributions to the legal community, and recently received the 2019 Minnesota Lawyer In-House Counsel Award for attorneys. “who among other things, navigate complicated contract negotiations, defend their companies in high stakes litigation and defend some of an organization’s most important assets.”
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