Morgan Nighan is a litigator who represents businesses and individuals in state and federal courts, administrative agencies, arbitrations and mediations across the country. She manages discovery, motion practice and trials for all types of complex commercial, white-collar and bankruptcy matters.
I represent companies in connection with contract disputes, business torts and other commercial and financial matters. I have extensive experience representing hospitals and health care institutions in litigations and investigations. For example, I currently represent several DSH hospitals in New Hampshire and New York in litigation against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
I defend companies and individuals being investigated by governmental agencies, including U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
I represent Chapter 11 debtors, creditors and other parties in complex bankruptcy litigation. Representative matters include the contested confirmation trials of Energy Future Holdings Corp. in Delaware where I litigated and tried claims for $1 billion in principal and interest and a contested adversary proceeding in Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. I frequently represent clients in the health care industry as both debtors and creditors.
I am on the firm’s Class Action Defense team. The team has crafted successful defense strategies to help companies defeat class action lawsuits brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. We believe that under the current administration, certain FCC rulings may make it even easier for companies to defeat these claims in the future.
Law360 | April 30, 2019
Boston Complex Commercial Disputes associate Morgan Nighan is mentioned in this story for her co-representation of Barclays Bank Delaware in a successful effort to dismiss a proposed class action involving the collection of time-barred debt from credit customers.
Law.com Litigation Daily | April 04, 2019
Manchester Complex Commercial Disputes partner Scott O’Connell, head of the Litigation Department, is named one of the Litigators of the Week for securing an award of legal fees for his clients, a group of 26 New Hampshire hospitals who sued the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The litigation team also included Boston Complex Commercial Disputes associates Morgan Nighan and Kierstan Schultz.
Law360 | November 21, 2017
This article mentions Boston commercial litigation associate Morgan Nighan and Manchester commercial litigation partner and litigation department head Scott O’Connell for representing New Hampshire hospitals in an ongoing dispute involving a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services reimbursement policy. Scott is also quoted.
Law360 | November 16, 2017
This article quotes Manchester commercial litigation partner and litigation department head Scott O’Connell and mentions him and Boston commercial litigation associate Morgan Nighan as counsel representing New Hampshire hospitals in a dispute involving a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services reimbursement policy.
Law360 | July 30, 2016
New York City partner Craig Tractenberg, Boston partner Arthur Pressman, Manchester partner Dan Deane and Boston associate Morgan Nighan are mentioned as representing Planet Fitness in a case about its membership agreements with regard to state consumer protection laws.
Boston College Law School, J.D., cum laude
University of Albany, B.A., summa cum laude
New Hampshire
New York
Massachusetts
U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Hampshire
Morgan Nighan has been selected to the 2018 Massachusetts Rising Stars list in New England Super Lawyers Magazine, as well as Boston magazine’s “Top Women Attorneys in Massachusetts.”
