The Morgan Law Firm P.C.

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Elizabeth Ann Morgan

Betty Morgan | Shareholder | Morgan Law Firm, PC | Atlanta, GAElizabeth Ann “Betty” Morgan

Shareholder

Ms. Morgan was board certified by the Florida Bar as a specialist in business litigation from 1997 to 2007 and is certified in intellectual property law until 2013. She is admitted to all federal district courts in Florida and in Georgia, to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and to the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Morgan has handled cases in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Minnesota, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Nebraska, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and the Virgin Islands. Ms. Morgan has significant jury trial experience in state and federal court. She is experienced in alternative dispute resolution and is a registered mediator in Georgia.

Ms. Morgan teaches Trial Techniques at Emory University School of Law, has spoken to the Conference of Florida Circuit Court Judges on non-competition issues, has taught trademarks and trade secrets as adjunct faculty at the University of Miami School of Law and has lectured extensively on intellectual property and employment issues.

Education

  • J.D., Emory University School of Law, Order of the Coif, 1990
  • B.A., University of Florida, Phi Beta Kappa, 1979

Bar Admissions

  • Georgia
  • Florida, admitted September 1990
  • Board Certified in Business Litigation, 1997-2007
  • Board Certification in Intellectual Property Law, 2008-2013

Court Admissions

  • United States Supreme Court
  • 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Federal Courts in Georgia
  • Federal Courts in Florida
  • Supreme Court of Georgia
  • Georgia Court of Appeals

Professional Experience

  • Partner, Cantor Colburn LLP
  • Member, Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C.,
  • Partner, Co-Chair, Trademark/Copyright Practice Group, Hunton & Williams LLP, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Partner, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP, Atlanta, Georgia

Memberships

  • American Association for Justice (AAJ), member Board of Governors representing Women’s Caucus, Employment Rights Section, Business Torts Section, Intellectual Property Litigation Group
  • American Bar Association (ABA, member, Section of Intellectual Property Law, Section of Labor and Employment Law and Section of Litigation
  • American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, Inc. (ACLU), director, 2003-2005
  • American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Georgia (ACLU), director, 2003-2005
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), Secretary, 2011-2012; Member of Board of Directors, 2009-2011
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), Chair, Copyright Committee, 2008-2009
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), Vice Chair, Trademark Legislation Committee, 2005-2007
  • Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), chair, Business Torts Section, 2005-2006
  • Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), chair, Intellectual Property/Trade Secrets Committee, 2000-2003
  • Association of Emory Alumni, Board of Governors, 2000-2004
  • Atlanta Bar Association
  • Bleckley American Inn of Court, Master of the Bench
  • Board of Directors Network (BDN), member
  • Copyright Society of the USA, member
  • Emory University School of Law, Adjunct Professor of Law, Trial Techniques, 2000-present
  • Federal Bar Association, Atlanta Chapter member
  • Florida Association for Women Lawyers, President 1995-1996
  • Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, member
  • The Florida Bar Standing Committee on Professionalism, 1993-2002
  • The Florida Bar Standing Committee on Business Litigation Certification, 1996-2005, Vice Chair 2004-2005
  • Georgia Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL), member
  • International Trademark Association (INTA), member, Panel of Neutrals, 2010-2013
  • International Trademark Association (INTA), member US Legislation Subcommittee, 2012-13
  • International Trademark Association (INTA), member, Courts and Tribunals Subcommittee, 2010-2011
  • International Trademark Association (INTA), member, Preliminary Relief Subcommittee, 2008-2009
  • International Trademark Association (INTA), chair, US Political Action Committee, 2003-2007
  • International Trademark Association (INTA), member, USPTO Subcommittee, 2004-2007
  • International Trademark Association (INTA), chair, US Legislation Subcommittee, 2002-2003
  • Intellectual Property Owners (IPO), Vice Chair, Trademark Law, US Committee, 2004-2005
  • Intellectual Property Owners (IPO), Vice Chair, Litigation Committee, 2006-2009
  • Lawyers Club of Atlanta, member
  • Lawyers Foundation of Georgia, Inc., fellow
  • Leadership Atlanta, Class of 2002
  • Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
  • National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), member

Awards and Professional Recognition

Betty Morgan has received numerous awards and professional recognition:

  • Received a 2002 Burton Award for excellence in legal writing
  • Named as one of the top 50 women attorneys in Atlanta, as selected by Georgia attorneys and published in Atlanta Magazine and Georgia Super Lawyers Magazine®, March 2005
  • Named one of “Georgia’s Legal Elite,” a listing of the state’s “most effective lawyers” in 2003, 2004 and 2005, as selected by Georgia attorneys and published in Georgia Trend Magazine, December 2003, 2004 and 2005
  • Georgia Super Lawyers®, named as one of the top 5% of Georgia lawyers for Intellectual Property Litigation, as selected by Georgia attorneys and published in Atlanta Magazine and Georgia Super Lawyers Magazine®, March 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010,2011 and 2012
  • Outstanding Committee Award, Litigation Committee, IPO Annual Meeting in New York, New York 2007;
  • Outstanding Committee Award, Trademark Law Committee, U.S., IPO Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA, September 2005

Seminars & Speeches

  • 05/11/2012, Speaker, Is Copyright’s Transformative-Use Doctrine A Square Peg In A Round Hole in Right of Publicity Cases, American Intellectual Property Law Association Spring Meeting, Austin, Texas
  • 05/07/2012, Moderator, Have Internet Surveys Finally Gained Respectability?, Table Topic, International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
  • 05/17/2011, Moderator, Can The Plaintiff Really Get the Defendants Profits in a False Advertising Case?, Table Topic, International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
  • 09/13/2010, Moderator, Best Practices in Multi-Defendant Litigation, Intellectual Property Owners Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 01/29/2010, Speaker, Copyright Law in Flux: A Look at Recent Decisions Taken and Declined, American Intellectual Property Law Association Mid-Winter Institute, La Quinta, California
  • 05/28/2009, Speaker, Venue: Friend or Foe? Intellectual Property Owners Association Patent Litigation “Trolls II” Conference, Washington, D.C.
  • 05/20/2009, Moderator, The Intersection between Trade Dress and Design Patents, Table Topic International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
  • 10/23/2008, Speaker, In the Wake of Bonito Boats: Rough Seas for Intellectual Property In The Supreme Court, American Intellectual Property Law Association 2008 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
  • 09/06/2008-09/11/2008, Speaker, Trademark Ethics: Prosecution, Policing, Pretexting and Foreign Practice, AIPPI, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 09/04/2008-09/05/2008, Speaker, Hot Topics in Trademark Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation Seminar, DRI, Chicago, Illinois
  • 05/18/08-05/21/08, Moderator, Boundaries of Personality Rights in the United States, Table Topic, International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany
  • 03/17/08-03/18/08, Moderator, Trends in Federal Circuit Damages Decisions, Intellectual Property Owners Litigation Committee Conference, Washington, D.C.
  • 10/18/07-10/20/07, Moderator, the In-House Counsel Institute, American Intellectual Property Law Association 2007 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
  • 09/09/07-09/11/07, Speaker, Trademark Ethics: Prosecution, Policing, Pretexting and Foreign Practice, Intellectual Property Owners Annual Meeting, New York, New York
  • 04/28/07-05/01/07, Moderator, Comparative Advertising Issues in the United States, Table Topic, International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
  • 03/20/07-03/21/07, Speaker, Making the burden of E-Discovery Manageable, American Conference Institute In-House Counsel Summit on Managing & Settling Corporate Patent Litigation, New York, New York
  • 01/24/07-01/27/07, Speaker, Heads Up! Fed.R.Civ.P. 26 Meets The TTAB; Trademark Practice Is Transformed, AIPLA Mid-Winter Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • 11/13/06, Speaker, Section 505(b)(2) New Drug Applications: Application Requirements and Exclusivity Issues, New York Pharma Forum, New York, New York
  • 09/10/06-09/12/06, Speaker, Heads Up! Fed.R.Civ.P. 26 Meets The TTAB; Trademark Practice Is Transformed, Intellectual Property Owners Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
  • 09/10/06-09/12/06, Speaker, Highlights of the Stop Counterfeiting in Manufactured Goods Act, Intellectual Property Owners Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
  • 06/27/05, Speaker, Dissecting the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2005, Association of Corporate Patent Counsel, Cambridge, Maryland
  • 06/22/05, Speaker, Complex IP Licensing Workshop
  • 06/22/05, Speaker, Trademarks and Branding: The Infrastructure for Licensing Strategies, Law Seminars International, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 05/12/05, Speaker, Strategies for Winning (Or Not Losing) Your Trademark Case with a Motion for Preliminary Injunction, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Spring Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 06/25/04, Moderator, Trademarks and Branding, The Comprehensive Workshop on Advanced IP Licensing Transactions, Law Seminars International, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 05/03/04, Moderator, Effective Counterfeiting Enforcement Strategies in the U.S., Table Topic, International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 07/22/02, Speaker, How to Win Your Trademark Infringement Case with a Preliminary Injunction, Association of Trial Lawyers of America Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 09/28/01, Speaker, Safe Harbor Principles to the European Data Protection Directive, TechLaw Group, Inc., Contracting On The Net, Paris, France
  • 05/06/01, Moderator, Trademark Litigation Strategies for Advanced Practitioners, Table Topic, International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California
  • 10/12/00-10/13/00, Speaker, Trademark Law Meets the Internet, Intellectual Property Impacts on e-Business, Law Seminars International, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 09/15/00, Speaker, Trademark Infringement and Dilution in Cyberspace, TechLaw Group Inc., E-Commerce and Protection of Intellectual Property in Cyberspace, Chicago, Illinois
  • 06/01/00, Speaker, Online Publishing and Copyright Law Issues, Magazine Association of Georgia, 11th Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 02/11/00, Speaker, Ethics, www.Internetlaw.com II, The Florida Bar, Miami, Florida
  • 10/27/99-10/31/99, Speaker, Trademark, Tradename Practice for the Entertainment Lawyer and Implied Licenses, Copyright Assignments and Termination Issues, 11th Annual Southeast Regional Entertainment and Sports Law Seminar, Curacao
  • 01/22/99, Speaker, Covenants Not to Compete, Business Law Seminar, The Florida Bar, Miami, Florida
  • 06/14/98-06/17/98, Speaker, Covenants Not To Compete, Florida Conference of Circuit Court Judges, Annual Business Meeting, Clearwater, Florida
  • 05/15/98, Speaker, Covenants Not To Compete, Employment Law Seminar, The Florida Bar, Miami, Florida
  • 10/18/96, Speaker, Advertising Issues In Print and Online, Hidden Intellectual Property Issues for the Transactional Lawyer and Corporate Counsel, The Florida Bar, Miami, Florida

Media Coverage

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Spanish

Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating

  • AV *

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