Grace E. Speights — Co-Managing Partner of Washington, D.C. Office at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Ms. Grace E. Speights serves as Co-Managing Partner of Washington, D.C. Office at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. Ms. Speights served as a Partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. Ms. Speights' practice focuses on counseling and defending clients in connection with employment discrimination claims, primarily those involving class claims. Ms. Speights has handled several employment discrimination class action cases. She has also defended several cases involving claims of discrimination of public accommodations. Prior to joining the Labor and Employment Law Practice, Ms. Speights was an associate and partner in the firm's Litigation Practice, where she focused on employment discrimination litigation, employee benefits litigation and insurance coverage litigation. She has litigation and trial experience in federal courts nationwide and in the local courts in the District of Columbia. Ms. Speights joined Morgan Lewis in 1984, after having clerked for late Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Ms. Speights was elevated to partnership in October 1991. Ms. Speights has also served on the adjunct faculty of the Washington College of Law of the American University. She has co-authored several articles, the most recent concerning mediation of employment discrimination class actions. Ms. Speights is very active in bar association activities and has served as an officer in several associations in the Washington, D.C., area. Ms. Speights also served for six years as a member of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Committee on Admissions, which is responsible for preparing and grading the essay examination of the District of Columbia Bar, and for making recommendations to the Court regarding the admission of applicants to the bar and the District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Tenure and Disabilities. Ms. Speights has been actively involved in recruitment and management activities at Morgan Lewis. She has served as a member of the Washington Office Management Committee, and, when her practice was dedicated to general litigation, she served as the deputy assistant manager of the Litigation Section of the firm's Washington office. She also served as the hiring partner and chair of the Recruiting Committee of the firm's Washington office from 1994-1998. She is a Trustee at Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.