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Morgan Schreurs

Associate

Washington +1 202 662 5362

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    Morgan Schreurs represents and counsels clients in matters presenting significant legal, political, or reputational risk. She develops and executes public policy strategies, defends congressional investigations, and conducts workplace culture investigations and institutional culture assessments.

    Morgan has nearly a decade of experience in public policy and politics. Prior to joining Covington in 2018, Morgan served as an Oversight & Investigations Law Clerk to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) in 2016 and 2017. She also served on the Hillary for America National Advance Team from 2015 to 2016. Morgan worked in Minnesota State policy and politics prior to attending law school. There, she provided government relations support to principal lobbyists for a food and consumer products trade association and a health and disability non-profit organization; supported federal, state, and local political candidates while working for a political non-profit organization; and educated producers and consumers about agriculture policy while serving as a Minnesota Soybean Ambassador.

    Morgan is on the forefront of DEI and civil rights issues. She is the Policy Director of Invent Together—an alliance of universities, nonprofits, companies, and other stakeholders dedicated to understanding the diversity gaps in invention and patenting and supporting public policy and private initiatives to close them. She also serves on the Leadership Advisory Committee of the National Women's Law Center.

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    Public Policy

    • Serve as Policy Director for Invent Together, an alliance of organizations, universities, companies, and other stakeholders dedicated to understanding the diversity gaps in invention and patenting and supporting public policy and private initiatives to close them.
    • Represent a Fortune 100 technology company on public policy initiatives related to intellectual property and innovation.
    • Represent the first and only U.S. trade association for health data and analytics companies.
    • Represent the largest pension trust fund in the country on matters before Congress and the Administration.
    • Assisted with the development and execution of a a multi-year strategy for the largest multiemployer plan in the country to ensure that retirees in troubled multiemployer plans receive their hard-earned benefits and that healthy plans remain whole, culminating in the passage of groundbreaking multiemployer pension plan legislation as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
    • Represented a meat-alternative company on food labeling matters before Congress.
    • Represented a major sports league on immigration policy issues before Congress.
    • Developed and executed a public policy strategy that accounted for complex trade association dynamics for a luxury cosmetics company.
    • Provided comprehensive government affairs services to a leading technology platform company.
    • Drafted legislation, including a comprehensive bill related to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of rare kidney disease; a bill related to Medicare coverage of Alzheimer's treatments; and numerous bills and provisions related to technology and innovation.
    • Developed and executed media strategies as part of comprehensive public policy support for multiple clients.
    • Assisted a major airline company in preparing a nomination for a federal advisory committee.

    Institutional Culture and Social Responsibility

    • Drafted a report, under the leadership of former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, for Uber regarding its efforts to promote civil rights, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
    • Drafted an initial report and two progress reports, under the leadership of former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, for Starbucks regarding its efforts to promote civil rights, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
    • Conducted internal investigation, under the leadership of former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, of health and safety wagering allegations at a Tyson Foods plant.
    • Conducted internal investigation of the CEO of a multinational company alleged to have made inappropriate gender-based comments to subordinates.
    • Conducted internal investigation of an executive of a Fortune 100 company alleged to have made inappropriate advances toward a subordinate and have participated in a consensual relationship with a subordinate.
    • Conducted internal investigation of employees of a public entity alleged to have prior awareness of an employee's sexual and other misconduct.

    Congressional Investigations

    • Represented two major pharmaceutical companies involved in a House drug pricing investigation.
    • Represented several companies involved in investigations by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.
    • Assisted in the preparation of executives of large companies for congressional hearing appearances.   

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  • Credentials
    Education
    • University of California, Berkeley School of Law, J.D., 2018
        • Order of the Coif
        • California Law Review, Publishing Editor
        • Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice
    • University of St. Thomas, B.A., 2015
        • summa cum laude
        • Political Science and Women’s Studies
    Bar Admissions
    • District of Columbia
    • Maryland
    Memberships and Affiliations
    • National Women's Law Center Leadership Advisory Committee
    • American Soybean Association
    • Minnesota Soybean Growers Association
    Previous Experience
    • Oversight & Investigations Law Clerk to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP)

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