About the Firm

Morris Law Group is an AV-rated commercial litigation firm, founded nearly twenty years ago by some of Nevada’s most respected lawyers. The firm was also formerly known as Morris Pickering & Peterson, but changed its name in 2009 after one of the founding partners, Kristina Pickering, was elected to the Nevada Supreme Court.

Morris Law Group enjoys a strong reputation for its litigation practice and prides itself on quality, cost-effective, and efficient services to obtain outstanding results for its clients. Part of the firm’s success in managing cost-efficient litigation from its size and the breadth of experience and the absence of the costly overhead required to maintain multiple specialized practice areas and personnel.

The firm’s representative clients include national, international, and local real estate developers, international and national gaming and entertainment enterprises, public and private financial institutions, public utilities, and manufacturers of automobiles and components, pharmaceutical products and medical devices, and other industrial products and equipment. Some of our recent clients include MGM Resorts International (formerly MGM Mirage), Harrah’s, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Las Vegas Sands, Medtronic, NV Energy (Sierra Pacific Power Company and Nevada Power Company), SureWest Communications, Brightsource, St. Paul Insurance, Great Western Insurance, RJ Reynolds, Ebara International, Hertz, Morgan Stanley, the FDIC, and many others. The firm also represents several non-profits, including the Wilbur May Foundation and the Catholic Diocese of Reno. Learn more about the firm’s practice areas here.

The partners, are seasoned, successful, and active trial lawyers with over 60 years of combined experience representing clients in all kinds of civil litigation. Steve Morris has been listed among the nation’s Best Lawyers® for over twenty years and Best Lawyers®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, recently named him Las Vegas’ “2011 Lawyer of the Year – Bet-the-Company Litigation” and the “2012 Lawyer of the Year – Construction Litigation.” The firm’s combined experience includes well over one hundred trials to jury verdict in state and federal courts, and many more bench trials. The firm’s lawyers also maintain a regular appellate practice, with over 50 reported decisions in the Federal Reporter, Federal Supplement, Nevada Supreme Court Reports, and the California Reporter. The firm also handles disputes in non-judicial forums, such as arbitration and mediation.

Learn more about the firm’s lawyers here. Read some of the firm’s recent decisions here. U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers® recently named Morris Law Group’s two offices among the “Best Law Firms” for General Commercial Litigation (Tier 1). The firm is also rated as a “highly recommended” by Benchmark Litigation and enjoys similar endorsements from other rating services. Steve Morris has been selected as Mountain States and Nevada Super Lawyers and listed in Best Lawyers in America, and has served as state chair of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Five of the firm’s other lawyers have been selected as Mountain States and Nevada Rising Stars.

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