Roger S. Morrow

     Roger S. Morrow was born in Moultrie, Georgia on July 3. 1954, and reared in Enterprise, Alabama. He graduated from Birmingham Southern College in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology/Pre-medicine. During a summer and an interim session while attending Birmingham Southern College, he assisted Robert M. Johnstone, M.D. in anesthesia research conducted at the United States Army Aeromedical Research Lab located at Fort Rucker, Alabama.

     Upon completing his undergraduate degree, he attended the University of Alabama Law School during which time he served as a member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Legal Profession, and was selected as a Hugo L. Black Scholar. Mr. Morrow graduated in the top ten percent of his class with a Juris Doctorate from the University of Alabama in 1979 and was selected as a member of the Alabama Chapter of the Order of the Coif.

     Following completion of law school, Mr. Morrow served as a law clerk for Justice T. Eric Embry of the Alabama Supreme Court until 1980. From 1980 to 1981 Wesley Romine and he were associate attorneys in the law office of Ted Taylor, a prominent plaintiff's attorney. Subsequently, Wesley Romine and Roger Morrow became shareholders in Whitesell, Morrow & Romine, P.C., a predecessor law firm. Upon dissolution of Whitesell, Morrow & Romine in 1987, Roger Morrow and Wesley Romine formed the law firm of Morrow & Romine, P.C. The firm became Morrow, Romine & Pearson, P.C. in I989 when Joel H. Pearson became a shareholder.

     Since entering private practice in 1979, Mr. Morrow has engaged in a civil trial practice representing litigants in all state and federal courts as well as representing litigants before administrative agencies and in arbitration proceedings. Mr. Morrow has personally tried in excess of fifty jury trials in both state and federal court. These trials have included cases involving products liability, serious injury, wrongful death, construction, business and commercial torts, consumer fraud and misrepresentation, insurance coverage, insurance bad faith, insurance fraud, medical malpractice, co-employee suits, slip and falls, automobile accidents, truck accidents, wrongful termination of employees in violation of Alabama Worker's Compensation Act, employee discrimination, handicap discrimination, dram shop, assault and battery, slanderldefamation and trespass. Mr. Morrow has also represented litigants in more than fifty appeals and petitions before the Alabama Supreme Court, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

     Mr. Morrow has developed specialty areas of practice involving insurance coverage matters, products liability, automobile dealership litigation, arbitration, and employment litigation. He drafts insurance coverage opinions and litigates insurance declaratory judgment actions in state and federal court on a regular basis. Mr. Morrow regularly defends automobile dealerships and product manufacturers in all types of product liability suits involving wrongful death or serious injury. He is also experienced in enforcing mandatory arbitration contract provisions.

     Mr. Morrow is a certified mediator and arbitrator. He has been involved in arbitrations both as an arbitrator and as an attorney representing litigants. He also represents litigants in mediation in addition to serving as a mediator in over 100 mediations. Most of these mediations were appointed by Circuit Court judges. He has also served as a Special Master appointed by local Circuit Court judges.

     Mr. Morrow is admitted to practice before the Alabama Supreme Court (1979); United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (1979); the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama (1983); the United State District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (1982); the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1979); the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1981); the Supreme Court of the United States (1986). During several administrations of various Alabama governors and attorney generals, Mr. Morrow was appointed and served as a Deputy Attorney General and a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alabama. He has also served as an honorary member for instructional service of the Alabama Judicial College. He is a member of the Alabama State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, the Defense Research Institute, the Montgomery County Bar Association, and the Federal Bar Association.

     He has technical expertise in legal issues related to the SCUBA diving industry due to the fact that he is a certified NAUl Assistant Instructor and a SSI Dive-Con, and he holds various technical diving certifications through IANDT, Technical Diving International and NSS-CDS.