Luncheon Speaker: Grace Speights, GW Board of Trustees
Grace Speights is the Global Leader of the Labor and Employer Practice Group at Morgan Lewis, resident in the Washington office. In that role she manages approximately 300 lawyers and is responsible for setting the strategic vision of the group. Grace handles high profile and high stakes workplace matters for many clients and provides crisis management assistance. Specifically, Grace leads the firm’s multidisciplinary workplace culture consulting team of more than 30 lawyers across offices and practices. Combining employment and workplace law experience with investigative expertise, Grace and her team help employers effectively investigate and defend against claims of sexual harassment, as well as complete organizational culture assessments for diversity and inclusion. In 2018, Grace was recognized for her efforts in spearheading high-profile internal investigations and counseling corporations on navigating the new workplace paradigm in the wake of the #MeToo movement and was named the Attorney of the Year by The American Lawyer. Grace received her B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979, and her J.D. degree with honors and as a member of the Order of the Coif from the George Washington University Law School in 1982. She is a member of the George Washington University Board of Trustees, where she serves as Secretary of the Board and Chair of the Governance and Nominations Committee.