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R. Morgan Briggs ("Morgan") tries cases for plaintiffs and defendants and advises employers and political subdivisions. He represents injured people and their families in personal-injury litigation, employers in discrimination and retaliation suits in federal and state courts, and Louisiana municipalities, police juries, and public boards in matters involving contracts, ordinances, public records,  and civil rights. Morgan has represented clients in state district courts throughout Louisiana, with appeals to Louisiana's Courts of Appeal and the Louisiana Supreme Court, as well as in federal district courts in Louisiana, with appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
 
Morgan has served as President of the Alexandria Bar Association. He is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the F. A. “Pappy” Little, Jr. American Inn of Court, and he has served on the Grant Parish Planning Commission. His family’s roots in Central Louisiana go back generations.
 
Before joining the firm, Morgan interned for United States Magistrate Judge Joseph H.L. Perez-Montes in the Western District of Louisiana and for the Civil Rights Division of the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office. He earned his J.D./D.C.L. with honors from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in 2018, where he also served as Issue Editor of the Louisiana Law Review. His undergraduate degree is in computer information systems—a Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, from Northwestern State University.

Morgan was selected as a 2022 Rising Star by Super Lawyers publication, an accomplishment reserved to attorneys under the age of 40 with the highest level of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Recognitions
  • Louisiana Law Review
    • Issue Editor (2017 - 2018)
    • Member (2016 - 2018)
  • CALI Excellence Awards in the study of Legal Research & Writing I, Legal Research & Writing II, Natural Resource Law and Policy, and Appellate Practice & Procedure
  • Alpha Lambda Delta
  • Phi Kappa Phi
  • Epsilon Delta Pi
  • Beta Gamma Sigma
  • Phi Alpha Delta Society of Scholars
  • Northwestern State University Office of Greek Life Distinguished Senior Award, 2015
Professional and Civic Activities
  • Louisiana State Bar Association
  • Grant Parish Planning Commission
  • The Federalist Society
  • Alexandria Bar Association
    • Young Lawyers Section Council
      • President (2023 - 2024)
      • Vice-President (2022 - 2023)
  • Theta Chi Fraternity
Publications and Presentations
  • Criminalization of Cyberbullying: The Constitutionality of Creating an Online Neverland for Children Under A Tinker-Bell Analysis, 78 La. L. Rev. 1059, 1060 (2018).

Clerkships

  • Extern for Hon. Joseph H.L. Perez-Montes, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana
  • Extern for Jeff Landry, Louisiana Attorney General, Civil Rights Division

Education

  • Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University, J.D./D.C.L., cum laude, 2018
  • Northwestern State University, B.S., magna cum laude, 2015

Bar and Court Admissions

  • Supreme Court of Louisiana
  • U.S. District Court
    • Eastern District of Louisiana
    • Middle District of Louisiana
    • Western District of Louisiana
  • U.S. Court of Appeals
    • Fifth Circuit