Barbara D. Urlaub

Barbara D. Urlaub is an employment lawyer whose practice focuses on litigation and appeals involving employment rights claims, municipal law, and complex business and commercial disputes. Urlaub represents clients in state and federal courts and in arbitration and advises on employment rights and business issues. She is also retained as an independent investigator for sexual harassment, employment discrimination, and high-level employee misconduct matters, combining litigation experience with careful factual review of workplace concerns.

Urlaub earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1985 and a B.A., with High Distinction, from the University of Michigan in 1982. She began her legal career as a Pre-Hearing Attorney with the Michigan Court of Appeals and later served as a law clerk to the Hon. George LaPlata in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Her education and court experience support a practice involving complex legal arguments and appellate review.

Urlaub has represented clients in contract disputes, trade secret litigation, non-competition enforcement actions, employment discrimination matters, and other complex litigation. Her appellate work includes matters before the US Court of Appeals, the Michigan Court of Appeals, the Michigan Supreme Court, and Michigan circuit courts reviewing agency decisions. She has also worked in-house for a large professional employer organization, where she handled employment-related litigation, adding practical business experience to her representation of employers and individuals.

Barbara D. Urlaub has been recognized by DBusiness as a Top Lawyer in Appellate Law. Urlaub is admitted in Michigan and in several federal courts and belongs to the State Bar of Michigan’s Labor and Employment and Appellate Practice Sections. Her combination of employment-law knowledge, appellate experience, workplace investigations, and commercial-litigation work helps clients address disputes that require careful factual development, persuasive legal analysis, and an informed strategy for trial, arbitration, investigation, or appeal.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Morgan & Jones, PLLC
• Member, State Bar of Michigan
• Member, Labor and Employment and Appellate Practice Sections, State Bar of Michigan
• Member, United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
• Member, United States District Court, Western District of Michigan
• Member, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois
• Member, United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
• Member, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

Licensed State

• Michigan

Education

• University of Michigan Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Michigan
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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