Susan Baker Manning is a highly experienced litigator, and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP’s first Senior Pro Bono Trial Lawyer. In this role, Susan leads large impact litigation matters in support of at-risk individuals and underrepresented groups, such as those seeking access to housing, healthcare, education, and other public benefits, as well as those fleeing persecution in their home countries. She also focuses on expanding the firm’s long-standing commitment to civil liberties work across numerous issues, deepening relationships with clients and current partner organizations, and forming alliances with new ones. Susan has dedicated thousands of hours to pro bono service throughout her career. She has made a meaningful impact on the protection of First Amendment, human, and civil rights. Susan’s work in recent years has included representing some of the largest businesses in the country in an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges showing how discrimination against same-sex marriage is bad for business, representing several U.S. Senators in a case involving access to the asylum system, and presenting expert analysis by several former surgeons general regarding the fitness of transgender people for military service. Her other pro bono victories include successfully representing a domestic violence shelter in an action to protect its clients following public disclosure of its confidential shelter location; a Guantanamo Bay-related case that received international attention; obtaining asylum for individuals fleeing persecution; and numerous civil rights cases. Susan’s pro bono work builds upon her two decades of practice as an intellectual property litigator specializing in patent, trademark, and copyright cases. She has considerable experience at the trial court level (including matters heard by government agencies such as the International Trade Commission), and has argued numerous cases before U.S. Courts of Appeal. Susan has represented name-brand technology companies in matters involving a variety of technology areas including in the software, Internet, hardware, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and architecture spaces. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Susan was a partner in the litigation practice of another international law firm.