Yale University, B.A. 1967
University of Pennsylvania, J.D. 1970

After receiving his bachelors degree in philosophy, earning his law degree, and practicing for three years with the Philadelphia firm of Clark, Ladner, Fortenbaugh & Young, Mr. Morris joined the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office. His four years in that office included service as First Assistant from 1975 through 1977. He then returned to private practice specializing in litigation with the firm of Pierson, Jones and Morris. Since 1982 Mr. Morris has been a sole practitioner with a practice divided between corporate representations and litigation, including white-collar criminal defense and management of national litigation for Reading Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Reading Railroad) and New Piper Aircraft. He joined KCR as Of Counsel in 2005.

Mr. Morris is the referral lawyer of choice of many prominent attorneys in the region. As such, he has tried numerous high-profile criminal and civil cases. As an appellate lawyer, he has argued a wide range of cases in the state and federal systems. He frequently represents attorneys and judges in the disciplinary system.

Mr. Morris has served two terms on the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, as Chairman of its Rules Committee, and on the Board of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. In 1999, he was appointed by the Governor to serve on the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board where he was Chairman from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Morris lectures on trial practice at Temple University and has been a regular instructor in NITA regional and national programs and in programs at Harvard, Emory, and Cardozo law schools. Mr. Morris serves on the Ethics Committee at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Mr. Morris has been repeatedly recognized as a Pennsylvania "Super Lawyer" in Philadelphia Magazine. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.  Mr. Morris currently serves as Judge of The Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline.  He was appointed to a four-year term by Governor Rendell.