PATRICK F. MORRIS

Patrick Morris is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point (B.S. 1978) and of the Duke University School of Law (J.D. 1983), where he graduated Order of the Coif.  Mr. Morris served as a Major in the Office of the Judge Advocate General with the Department of the Army. 

Mr. Morris has been with the firm since its inception in 1991, and has been actively involved in the firm’s practice in derivative and class representative litigation.  He has litigated claims under the antitrust, 10(b) securities fraud, ERISA, consumer protection and derivative law in courts around the country.  His work has included litigation in fields as varied as propane price and supply manipulation, U.S. government treasury auctions manipulation, breaches of duty by fiduciaries to 401(k) plans and pension funds, off-label drug promotion and medical risk management failures at major pharmaceutical companies, short-term trading and market timing practices in mutual funds and fraudulent life and disability insurance sales practices.   

Mr. Morris is a member of the American Bar Association.  Mr. Morris is a member of the bars of the States of Florida and Delaware and has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the District Court of the District of Delaware.