Morgan E. M. Harrison

Morgan is a partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice. She is also a member of the Payments Systems & Fintech industry team.

Morgan represents large and small public and closely held companies, payment processors, consumer reporting agencies, fiduciaries, government entities, and executives. She handles a wide variety of matters involving contract disputes, business torts, class actions, fiduciary liability, restrictive covenant disputes, and fraud and misrepresentation claims. Her experience includes work at both the trial and appellate levels in state and federal courts across the country.

In the payments space, Morgan spends a significant portion of her practice representing the acquiring side of the industry — including processors, ISOs, and payment facilitators — in litigation and compliance issues. Her practice handling disputes includes litigating with merchants over chargebacks, reserves, data breaches, and early termination fees. She also has experience representing payments companies in government investigations by the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. On the compliance and regulatory side, Morgan advises clients on compliance with card brand rules, including complex issues regarding surcharging, convenience fee, and cash discounting programs.

Morgan is also at the forefront of one of the fastest emerging areas in environmental law — litigation over per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”). For the past decade, Morgan has represented numerous companies within the carpet manufacturing industry in PFAS litigation brought in state and federal courts throughout the Southeast. Morgan has also published several articles with the American Bar Association and spoken on the state of play in PFAS regulations and emerging trends in PFAS litigation at the Georgia Environmental Conference and the American Bar Association Toxic Tort & Environmental Law Conference.