Grace E. Speights is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Labor and Employment Practice, Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office, chair of the Systemic Employment Litigation Practice, and co-chair of the firm's Diversity Committee. Prior to joining the Labor and Employment Practice, Ms. Speights was an associate and partner in the firm's Litigation Practice, where she focused on employment discrimination litigation, employee benefits litigation, and insurance coverage litigation. Ms. Speights joined Morgan Lewis in 1984, after having clerked for the late Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She was elevated to the partnership in October 1991. Ms. Speights also has served on the adjunct faculty of the Washington College of Law of the American University. George Washington University National Law Center, 1982, J.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1979, B.A.