Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP announced that partner Pauline K. Morgan has become a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an organization dedicated to advancing justice through rigorous research on the law, legal processes, and the law’s impact on society.
The ABF was founded in 1952 by the American Bar Association. Membership in The Fellows is limited to one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. Members are nominated by their peers and elected by the Board of the American Bar Foundation. Other Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor Fellows include Anne Shea Gaza, William D. Johnston and Norman M. Powell.
Morgan concentrates her practice on bankruptcy law and has served as chair of the firm’s bankruptcy section and as a member of the firm’s management committee since 2011. She has represented debtors, creditors’ committees and secured lenders in some of the nation’s largest chapter 11 cases, including Eastman Kodak (debtor representation), Coldwater Creek (debtor representation), GateHouse Media (debtor representation), Buffets Holdings, Inc. (debtor representation), American Home Mortgage (debtor representation), AbitibiBowater (debtor representation), Energy Future Holdings Corp. (ad hoc committee of first lien creditors), Dendreon Corporation (official committee), Exide Technologies (unofficial noteholders committee), Optim Energy (lender representation), and many others.
In 2015, Morgan was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. For the past several years, she has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® as a leading bankruptcy practitioner in Delaware and ranked in the top tier by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business©, which notes that she is “a highly respected figure in the Delaware market”.
Morgan earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and her B.A. (cum laude) from Duquesne University.
