Morgan R. Pankow

Morgan R. Pankow is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's Tysons office. Mr. Pankow primarily focuses his practice on complex commercial disputes.

Mr. Pankow has experience representing a broad spectrum of industries and has served as counsel to large, international companies, as well as small, local businesses and individual clients. He has also worked on several white collar defense matters and multiple internal investigations. Some recent representations include:

• serving as lead defense counsel for a national utility and electrical infrastructure company in wrongful death litigation
• serving as lead defense counsel for a government contract company in an employment dispute
• serving as lead defense counsel for an individual client in multiple pending securities fraud and immigration visa fraud cases
• serving as second chair defense counsel for a government contractor in a dispute with a subcontractor federally indicted for bribery
• representing multiple other government contracts entities in various disputes with subcontractors
• represented a graduate school admissions testing and counseling company in a dispute with a competitor involving employee non-solicitation issues
• represented a turbine energy company in a breach of contract dispute with an affiliate
• served as lead counsel for an international hotel chain in an eviction proceeding
• served as second chair defense counsel in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act collection dispute in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Additionally, Mr. Pankow maintains an active pro bono practice. One recent, successful pro bono litigation involved a lawsuit brought on constitutional grounds that triggered a state attorney general's office to amend regulatory language that conflicted with a state statute, which had resulted in the improper denial of property tax benefits to disabled military veterans.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Pankow worked in the complex commercial litigation group of an AmLaw 100 firm based in Washington, D.C.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Pankow clerked for the Honorable Rossie D. Alston Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, as well as at the Court of Appeals of Virginia. Mr. Pankow also previously clerked for the Honorable William T. Newman Jr. of the Arlington County Circuit Court in Virginia.

While attending law school as a night student, Mr. Pankow worked as a deputy clerk at the Arlington County Circuit Court. He was a member of the Supreme Court Clinic, working directly under now-Judge Michael H. Park of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and served as a research editor on the George Mason Law Review.