Hal R. Morris

Hal R. Morris
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Credentials & Accolades
Bar Admissions
  • Illinois
Court Admissions
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • Illinois Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
     

Firm Involvement 

  • General Counsel
  • Chair, Ethics Committee 
  • Member, Contingency Fee & Litigation Funding Committee
  • Co-Chair, Client Intake Committee 
  • Vice Chair, Appellate Practice

Degrees

  • J.D., High Honors, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1985
  • M.B.A., The University of Chicago, 1979
  • B.A., The University of Chicago, 1978

Honors & Awards 

  • Recipient of Illinois Local Government Lawyers Association Litigation Award for 2022 for work on McCafferty v. Village of Hoffman Estates.
  • Selected for inclusion in The Appellate Lawyers Roundup, 2022
  • Selected for inclusion in the Illinois Super Lawyers list for Business Litigation, 2005, 2007 to present
  • Named to the "Illinois Leading Lawyer" list

Teaching Experience  

Hal has a faculty appointment at the University of Chicago Law School teaching legal ethics and professional responsibility. In addition, he is an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent School of Law, teaching an advanced senior honors seminar on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He founded Chicago-Kent's Seventh Circuit Review, a scholarly journal discussing recent Seventh Circuit cases, and he continues to serve as the professor in charge of that journal.