Steve Morris
Partner
Steve
practices in all areas of complex commercial and tort
litigation, including insurance coverage, construction,
products liability, public utility, antitrust, and
federal securities
disputes.
EDUCATION
University of
Nevada, Reno (Undergraduate)
University of Texas
(Law)
COURT ADMISSIONS
All Nevada
State and Federal Courts
United States Supreme
Court
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Fellow,
American College of Trial Lawyers
Best Lawyers in
America - Business Litigation
American Law
Institute (Member, Advisory Committee on Complex
Litigation)
The Rose Commission (Nevada Supreme
Court) on the Structure and Organization of the Nevada
Judiciary
Nevada Supreme Court Committee to
Evaluate the Feasibility of a Commercial Court for
Nevada
Lawyer Representative to Ninth Circuit
Judicial Conference
State Bar of Nevada Board of
Governors
REPRESENTATIVE CASE
EXPERIENCE
Steve led MGM's representation in the
personal injury litigation following the November 20,
1980 fire (MDL 453), and in the business
interruption/property damage insurance coverage suit
that followed. He represented Hilton in the
Hilton fire litigation; American Pacific in its
successful jury defense of a securities fraud class
action; Microsoft in its successful defense of a
state-law-based antitrust suit; and Albert D. Seeno
Construction Co. in its litigation with its
subcontractor and insurers following a multi-million
dollar class action award against it in Reno, which
Steve was hired post-verdict to
resolve. Steve has represented pharmaceutical
companies, medical device manufacturers, automobile
manufacturers, hospitals, insurers and insureds in
coverage disputes, the Las Vegas Convention &
Visitors Authority, the Mirage, Sierra Pacific Power
Co., Southwest Gas Co., landowners contesting
fraudulently-filed mining claims, and other individuals
and entities in all manner of litigated disputes,
particularly in jury
cases.
AUTHOR
"Current Discovery
Disputes," and "Ethical Conflicts Facing Litigators" for
Civil Practice and Litigation in Federal & State
Courts, ALI/ABA, 1987 to
present.
Co-reporter/principal draftsman of Nevada
Supreme Court Rules 99-119 (rules for dealing with
alleged attorney misconduct).
Chair and co-drafter
of Nevada Supreme Court Rules 150-203 (Rules of
Professional
Conduct).
FACULTY
Faculty
Member, University of Texas School of Law, Intensive
Trial Advocacy Program
ALI/ABA video panelist,
"Dealing with the SOB Litigator."
ALI/ABA "Civil
Practice and Litigation in Federal and State Courts,
1987 to present.
Phone: 702.759.8301
Fax: 702.474.4547
Email: sm@morrislawgroup.com
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Partners
Morris,
Steve
Peterson,
William
Solis-Rainey,
Rosa
McCoy, Robert R.
Levin, Akke
Of Counsel
Fulstone, Suellen
Associates
Prupas, Janine C.
Lower, Ryan M.
Garner, Rex
Hendricks, JP
Raleigh C. Thompson
Joni A. Jamison
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