Donald C. Morgan

Senior Associate

Don is an associate whose practice focuses on employment and labor law as well as education law, including representing private employers, school districts, colleges, and universities. Don’s experience includes representing employers and educational institutions in the private and public sectors throughout the litigation process involving a variety of claims. Don assists clients with a variety of litigation and non-litigation issues, such as advice relating to employee policies, employment discrimination and retaliation, the Family Medical Leave Act, the Kentucky Whistleblower Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, Title IX, and constitutional claims. He received his J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law.

Credentials

Education

Wake Forest University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2016)

  • Order of the Coif
  • Editor-in-Chief, Wake Forest Law Review
  • Appellate Advocacy Clinic
  • C.A.L.I. Awards: State & Local Government; Funeral & Cemetery Law; Decedents’ Estates & Trusts; Commercial Leasing; Appellate Advocacy Clinic

University of Kentucky (B.B.A., cum laude, 2013)

  • Management

Bar admissions

  • Kentucky

Court admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Affiliations and memberships

  • Kentucky Bar Association
  • Fayette County Bar Association
  • Central Kentucky American Inn of Courts
  • Rotaract Club of Lexington

Distinctions

  • Kentucky Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2021–2024
  • Best Lawyers®
    • “Ones to Watch” in Lexington for Education Law (2021-2024)
    • “Ones to Watch” in Lexington for Labor and Employment Law – Management (2021-2024)
    • “Ones to Watch” in Lexington for Administrative / Regulatory Law (2021-2024)

News
  • December 18, 2025

    Kentucky Super Lawyers Recognizes 34 Dinsmore Attorneys on 2026 List

  • August 21, 2025

    260 Dinsmore Attorneys Listed as 2026 Best Lawyers®, Ones to Watch

  • December 17, 2024

    Kentucky Super Lawyers Recognizes 29 Dinsmore Attorneys on 2025 list

  • August 15, 2024

    250+ Dinsmore Attorneys Named 2025 Best Lawyers ®, Ones to Watch

  • December 29, 2023

    32 Dinsmore Attorneys Named 2024 Kentucky Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

  • August 17, 2023

    200+ Dinsmore Attorneys Named 2024 Best Lawyers®, “Ones to Watch”