Rachel E. Morse
Associate
Duane Morris LLP
100 High Street, Suite 2400
Boston, MA 02110-1724
USA
Phone: +1 857 488 4235
Fax: +1 857 401 3021
Email: remorse@duanemorris.com

Rachel E. Morse practices in the area of litigation. Ms. Morse has experience in contracts and civil and criminal litigation.

Ms. Morse is a 2009 graduate of Boston College Law School, where she was note editor of the Boston College Third World Law Journal, and a graduate of Cornell University.

Representative Matters

• Obtained a $65 million plus settlement on behalf of Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp. Tekmira had sued Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. and AlCana Technologies, Inc. in the Business Litigation Session of the Massachusetts Superior Court alleging that Alnylam and AlCana misappropriated Tekmira's trade secrets related to gene-silencing therapeutics. In addition to the payments, the settlement also assigns control to Tekmira over its leading systemic RNAi Therapeutics delivery technology, and brings clarity around the ownership of the intellectual property that protects its lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology.
• Represented a federally chartered savings bank and obtained a dismissal of claims in a putative class action in federal court in Boston when the court agreed that the state law purporting to limit the amount of insurance a bank can require is preempted by the Federal Homeowners Loan Act.

Admissions

• Massachusetts

Education

• Boston College Law School, J.D., 2009
  - Note Editor, Boston College Third World Law Journal
• Cornell University, B.A., 2001

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Associate, 2011-present
• Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General
  - Attorney, 2010
• Superior Court of Massachusetts
  - Law Clerk to the Justices of the Superior Court, 2009-2010