Morris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University and received his law degree from Temple University in 1962. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania (1962) and Florida (1976). Upon graduating from law school he clerked for the honorable Francis L. VanDusen in the United States District Court located in Philadelphia.  

Thereafter Morris became one of only three attorneys who practiced with the prestigious Philadelphia civil and maritime trial firms formerly known as Freedman, Landy, and Lorry and Richter, Lord, Toll, and Cavanaugh. At the Freedman office he became an expert in representing Seaman (civil actions under the Jones Act), and representing cruise line passengers who were injured. 

Morris concentrates his practice in the area of civil trial and maritime litigation; exclusively in personal injury and wrongful death claims. He is a well-known plaintiff’s trial attorney and was elected by his fellow trial lawyers as the 1993 president of the Broward County Trial Lawyers’ Association. 

Morris has been a frequent lecturer on maritime personal injury law and practice and has tried Jones Act claims, FELA claims, aviation litigation, product liability cases, motor vehicle claims, medical malpractice claims, premises liability, legal malpractice claims, and other tort claims. 

Morris is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Third, Fifth, and Eleventh United States Circuit Courts of Appeal, as well as many United States District Courts. He has tried many personal injury and wrongful death cases in Pennsylvania, New York, and Florida.