Morgan Branch

Representative trial work:

• Represented Monsanto as part of a winning trial team in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in a jury trial involving allegations that Monsanto’s weedkiller, Roundup, caused the plaintiff’s cancer.
• Trial counsel representing plaintiff in Section 1983 civil rights action—Wyatt v. Owens (W.D. Va.)—alleging use of unconstitutionally excessive force in effecting arrest. Jury returned a plaintiff’s verdict and awarded substantial compensatory and punitive damages.
• Selected as trial team member in first bellwether case defending a major medical device company in high-profile product liability litigation concerning a Class III medical device.
• Morgan currently represents an Alabama Death Row inmate as part of Sidley’s Capital Litigation Project. She was recently a lead member of the trial team in support of the client’s petition for post-conviction relief at a week-long evidentiary hearing in July 2021.

Representative litigation matters:

• National counsel rigorously defending a major medical device company in high-profile product liability litigation concerning a Class III medical device. Morgan was a trial team member for the first bellwether case, which resolved shortly before trial. 
• National counsel for a pharmaceutical company in a series of product liability actions in state and Federal court involving challenges to a life-saving medication, including failure to warn, fraud, and design defect claims. 
• Counsel for pharmaceutical company in consumer class action involving allegations of deceptive labeling.

• SidleyWomen, Chicago Associate Co-Leader
• Women’s Bar Association of D.C.