Biography
Ms. Morgan is available to conduct virtual mediations, arbitrations and other ADR proceedings on Zoom and other online platforms.
Texas Bar Card #10199300
Ms. Morgan has mediated hundreds of personal injury claims of all types. Her extensive experience enables Ms. Morgan to quickly recognize the major issues in the case and guide the parties to resolution. Ms. Morgan believes the opportunity to actively participate in the dispute resolution process yields both economic as well as emotional satisfaction for the parties.
Representative Matters
- Asbestos/Silicosis: Mediation of ten Dallas State Court dockets '
- Asbestos: Arbitration of property claims in property claims in Celotex bankruptcy and from the Asbestos Settlement Trusts
- Automobile/Wrongful Death
- Auto accident on highway under construction
- Auto v. gravel truck resulting in death
- Brake design defect
- Crane accident resulting in death involving multiple parties
- Fall from apartment complex window by child causing death
- Wrongful death action for motorcycle passenger struck by 18-wheeler
- General: Claim by minors pleading sexual assaults at criminal correction facility
- Medical Malpractice
- Alleged failure by hospital to perform due diligence when hospital was being acquired by large HMO resulting in death of husband and father
- Claim against hospital and nursing staff for failure to remove one of seventy surgical sponges causing infection to surgical site in Medicare patient
- Neonatal nurses allegedly responsible for failing to provide sufficient oxygen during delivery resulting in mental retardation of child
- Suicidal patient's widow claimed HMO failed to provide specialist care for her husband resulting in his death
- Premises Liability
- Elevator accident of guest to commercial building involving building owner, elevator company, tenant, and guest
- Injury to child at water park
- Slip and fall at apartment complex during ice storm
- Slip and fall in national grocery store brought by deli employee with operative back
- Slip and fall of guest at apartment complex during construction
- Product Liability
- Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist
Completed Virtual ADR training conducted by the JAMS Institute, the training arm of JAMS.
- Member, Roster of Mediators, American Health Law Association (AHLA), 2021-2022
- D Best Lawyer, Alternative Dispute Resolution / Mediation Category, Best Lawyers in Dallas, D Magazine, 2013-2020
- Repeat Guest Lecturer, “Why Ethics in Negotiations Count,” Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law, Oil & Gas Contracts Class, February 2019; February 2020
- Steve Brutsché Award, Association of Attorney-Mediators, 2019
- Best Lawyer, Arbitration and/or Mediation Category, Best Lawyers in America, 2008-2022
- Lawyer of the Year for Mediation in Dallas/Fort Worth, Arbitration and Mediation Category, Best Lawyers in America, 2018
- Lawyer of the Year for Arbitration in Dallas/Fort Worth, Arbitration and Mediation Category, Best Lawyers in America, 2017
- Lawyer of the Year for Mediation in Dallas, Mediation Category, Best Lawyers in America, 2012
- Top Lawyer in Dispute Resolution, D Magazine, 2013-2018
- Super Lawyer, Texas Super Lawyers by Thompson Reuters, 2012-2019
- Justice Frank G. Evans Award for Outstanding Contribution to Texas ADR, State Bar of Texas ADR Section, 2010
- Credentialed Distinguished Mediator, Texas Mediator Credentialing Assoc. (2004-present); Texas Mediator Credentialing Assoc. Board (2010-2012)
- Fellow, American Bar Foundation (2018-present); Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation (1992-present); Life Patron Fellow, Dallas Bar Assoc. Foundation (member, 1991-present)
- Fellow (2012-present), 5th Circuit Credentials Committee member (2016 to present), College of Labor & Employment Lawyers
- Member, American Bar Assoc., State Bar of Texas, Dallas Bar Assoc., and Plano Bar Assoc.
- Admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas and the United States Courts of Appeal, Fifth Circuit
- Member (1991-present), Immediate Past Chair (2008-2009), Chair (2007-2008), Chair Elect (2006-2007), Treasurer (2004-2006) and Council Member (2003-2009), State Bar of Texas ADR Section
- State Bar of Texas ADR Section Representative to Texas Mediator Credentialing Assoc. (2009-2012)
- Council Member (2005-2012), Vice Chair (2010), Chairman (2011), Immediate Past Chair (2012), Dallas Bar Assoc. Labor and Employment Law Section
- Member, State Bar of Texas Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Section (2014-2016)
- Member, Dallas Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, Antitrust and Business Litigation Section, Construction Law Section, Health Law Section, Labor and Employment Law Section, Litigation Section, Oil, Gas, and Energy Resources Law Section
- Member, JAMS Foundation Board (2017-present)
- American Health Lawyers Association ADR Dispute Resolver (2007-present)
- Member, Center for American and International Law’s Institute for Energy Law (2014-2019)
- Adjunct Professor, Texas Tech University School of Law (Spring, 2013-2017)
- Member, Local Organizing Committee for the Global Pound Conference Series, Austin, Texas (January, 2017)
- Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Introduction to International Arbitration (2012)
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rated since 1988
- A former commercial litigator, Ms. Morgan has tried and argued cases from the trial courts to the Texas Supreme Court, the 5th Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court
- Completion of all Texas statutory requirements to act as mediator in all types of cases, i.e., forty classroom hours of training in dispute resolution techniques and twenty-four hours of training in the fields of family dynamics, child development, and family law including a minimum of four hours of family violence dynamics training (2018)
- Negotiation, mediation, and advanced mediation courses, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law, 1991-2010
- Mediation and negotiation courses, Harvard Law School, 1992
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Introduction to International Arbitration, 2012
- College of the State Bar of Texas
- J.D., Texas Tech University School of Law
- Phi Delta Phi
- National Order of Barristers
- B.A., (Mass Communications), Abilene Christian University
- Extensive travel with two trips around the world including one in 2013 covering ten countries in 73 days; has traveled six continents and is culturally sensitive to many different customs and religions
Counsel Comments
- “I greatly appreciate Cecilia’s hard work as well as the work of the others involved. This was an excellent mediation.”
- “We were very pleased with the service. Cecilia is always an excellent choice”
- “Cecilia is great, and is one of my go-to mediators."
News
Events
Practice Areas
- Antitrust
- Arbitration
- Banking
- Bankruptcy
- Business/Commercial
- Class Action/Mass Tort
- Construction Defect
- Employment
- Energy/Utility
- Estates/Probate/Trusts
- Financial Markets
- Franchise
- Governmental/Public Agency
- Health Care
- Higher Education & Title IX
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Personal Injury/Torts
- Pharmaceuticals/Mass Tort
- Professional Liability
- Real Property
- Securities
- Surety
Locations
Available nationwide ›
Select to Print
Biography
Media
Additional Information
Disclaimer
This page is for general information purposes. JAMS makes no representations or warranties regarding its accuracy or completeness. Interested persons should conduct their own research regarding information on this website before deciding to use JAMS, including investigation and research of JAMS neutrals. See More