Gayle Lamptey is an associate in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group. She focuses her practice on transactional corporate matters, including mergers & acquisitions, private equity, and other commercial matters. Gayle also has experience in advising both international and domestic entities on various governance issues.
While attending Rutgers Law School, Gayle was the Managing Editor of the Rutgers Business Law Review and participated in the Entrepreneurship Clinic where she provided free legal services to local businesses and entrepreneurs with contractual matters. Gayle also served as President of the Black Law Students Association and as a teaching assistant.
Education
- Rutgers Law School JD, 2022
- Managing Editor, Rutgers Business Law Review
- Rutgers University
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- *not admitted in Delaware
Reuben Lacy works at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP's Philadelphia office as a part of the firm's litigation practice group. He represents clients across a range of service areas and industries, including complex commercial disputes and government investigations, and has experience across all phases of the litigation process. In his current practice, he works closely with clients to develop litigation strategy, manage discovery, and prepare dispositive motions. He also regularly collaborates with case teams to analyze complex factual records and deliver practical, business-oriented solutions for clients. Education Temple University Beasley School of Law, 2024, J.D., summa cum laude; Order of the Coif; staff editor, Temple Law Review Cairn University, 2015, B.S., magna cum laude Admissions Pennsylvania US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Awards The National Black Lawyers, Top 40 under 40 (2026) Albert L. Bricklin Memorial Award for Outstanding Scholastic Achievement, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Skyler R. Morgan focuses her practice on assisting a range of commercial clients in finding creative and cost-effective ways to resolve both basic and complex commercial disputes. Skyler handles a variety of matters for small and large business owners, property owners, private equity investors, and other clients in civil litigation, corporate, and bankruptcy spaces, including contract drafting, contract disputes, defense in bankruptcy litigation, liquidation defense in the assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABCs) proceedings, premises liability, and more. Skyler regularly advises clients on both corporate issues such as corporate and LLC formation, governance and dissolution, and a variety of debt collection practices. Her practice also includes advising clients on complex federal and state fraudulent transfer and preference actions on previously paid invoices; the implications of Chapters 7, 11, and 13 bankruptcies on pending litigation, settlement, and business operations; and UCC filings to perfect and maintain purchase money security interests (PMSI) as well as liens on various items sold or leased in a business.
Skyler draws on experience representing the interests of unsecured trade creditors, small and large businesses, hospitals, and health care providers against allegations of negligence or preferential creditor treatment, where she was engaged in all stages of litigation from initial client meetings through preparation for trial, mediation, and arbitration. Skyler’s background also includes contract drafting for small businesses while working as a legal intern for the Entrepreneur’s Assistance Clinic, bankruptcy proceedings and commercial litigation while working as a law clerk, and a judicial externship with the Hon. William Arbuckle for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Related Areas
Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Creditors’ Rights
Ahmad Awadalla is a litigation associate and trial attorney who has tried cases to verdict. His practice focuses on the defense of complex general liability matters, including claims involving motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, and other negligence-based personal injury actions. He represents insurers, businesses, and individual clients in litigation in both state and federal courts.
Ahmad has experience in all phases of civil litigation, including written discovery, depositions, motion practice, arbitration, and trial preparation. He regularly conducts depositions of fact witnesses, corporate representatives, and expert witnesses, and prepares witnesses for testimony in both jury trials and arbitration proceedings. His motion practice experience includes drafting and arguing dispositive motions, motions in limine, and discovery motions that have narrowed issues and positioned cases for favorable resolution. He has also secured favorable outcomes for clients in binding arbitration through strategic witness examination and evidentiary presentation.
Ahmad approaches litigation with a strategic and practical mindset, focusing on early case evaluation, targeted discovery, and effective courtroom advocacy. Drawing on his trial experience, he develops clear, evidence-based defense strategies designed to challenge liability and limit exposure for his clients.
Education: American University, Washington College of Law, J.D., 2019; University of The District of Columbia, B.A., 2012.
Practices: Casualty; Construction & Labor; General Liability.
Admissions: Pennsylvania; U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Industries: Auto, Trucking & Transportation; Retail, Restaurants & Hospitality.
Cheryl-Lyn Bentley-Harmon
Cheryl-Lyn is an experienced employment and civil rights attorney and executive leader with deep experience across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. She advises small and mid-size organizations and nonprofits on HR compliance, employment law, and complex workplace issues, bringing a pragmatic, executive-level perspective shaped by leadership, enforcement, and litigation experience.
Cheryl-Lyn currently serves as General Counsel of a national nonprofit organization, where she functions as a strategic advisor to the CEO, executive team, and Board of Directors. This role encompasses enterprise-wide legal and compliance oversight, including employment and labor matters, governance, contracts, ethics, intellectual property, regulatory compliance, risk management, and organizational policy. Cheryl-Lyn also leads and manages multidisciplinary legal and ethics teams and partners closely with senior leaders across the organization.
Throughout her career, Cheryl-Lyn has advised CEOs, senior leadership teams, and boards on navigating sensitive employment issues, labor relations, policy development, and organizational change. She previously served as Deputy Director at a Philadelphia-based legal services organization, where she led human resources and operations for over 200 legal professionals across three offices. Before that, Cheryl-Lyn served at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights where she investigated civil rights violations and mediated disputes to resolution. She also worked as an attorney at a boutique employment firm representing plaintiffs in a wide variety of matters including discrimination, criminal history, and wage and hour cases. Cheryl-Lyn clerked for Chief Judge Petrese B. Tucker in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Cheryl-Lyn operates a limited advisory practice, Bentley Harmon PLLC, providing employment and HR compliance consulting to nonprofits and small-to-mid-sized businesses.
Cheryl-Lyn holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, M.S.Ed. from Long Island University, and B.A. from Harvard University.