Wayne Morse, Jr.
Phone: (205) 327-8325
Email: morse@wskllc.com
Waldrep Stewart & Kendrick, LLC 
2323 2nd Avenue North
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
Wayne Morse is an A-V rated lawyer (Martindale-Hubbell''s highest rating). His office is in Birmingham, but he represents plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts throughout the South. He is a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America, which honors elite, experienced trial lawyers and litigators. He has been recognized as one of Birmingham's "Top Attorneys" in a vote by other attorneys.
Morse has represented a wide variety of clients, corporate, government and individual, from financial institutions to law firms, from fired government employees to persons involved in will contests, from business executives involved in employment disputes to hospitals investigating gender harassment. The cases he has handled cover a wide range of subject matters, including, but not limited to fraud, business torts, insurance coverage, bad faith denial of insurance claims, federal and state employment matters, RICO, civil rights violations, legal malpractice, personal injury and antitrust. Although Morse purposefully has not specialized or limited his practice, he has spent considerable time focusing on commercial, civil rights and employment litigation. Morse has extensive experience representing clients in numerous Title VII, age and disability discrimination, Family Medical Leave Act, and ERISA cases. He represented the City of Tarrant, Alabama before the Supreme Court of the United States in an important civil rights case, and has also litigated in the Supreme Courts of Alabama and Tennessee and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Morse is married to Amy Baddour Morse. His father was a highly decorated Marine who served the United States in two wars. Morse has served many local charitable organizations as a fundraiser.
- Bar Admissions
Alabama and Tennessee; Supreme Court of the United States; United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama; United States Tax Court.
- Education
Samford University, J.D., 1976 (Phi Delta Phi); Birmingham-Southern College; B.S., 1972 (Omicron Delta Kappa).
- Professional Honors
Highest possible rating, AV, by Martindale-Hubbell; Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America (an honor society for experienced and effective litigators and trial lawyers); Dean's Cabinet, Samford University, Cumberland School of Law; Named one of region's "Top Attorneys" by Birmingham magazine; Master of the Bar in Birmingham Inns of Court.
- Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association; Alabama State Bar; Birmingham Bar Association; Defense Research Institute; Alabama Defense Lawyers Association; Rotary Club of Birmingham; Newcomen Society; Honored for fundraising and support for Multiple Sclerosis.
- Publications
Death Actions for Federal Violations in Alabama, Vol. No. 1, Samford (Cumberland) Law Review; ABC's of ERISA: An Alabama Perspective, Vol. 57, No. 7, Alabama Lawyer; Oops It Happened Again: Inadvertent Disclosure Under New Federal Rule of Evidence 502(a), Pretrial Practice and Discovery Committee Newsletter, Summer 2009; regular contributor to Litigation Counsel of America's Commentary on commercial law issues.
Reasons for hiring Wayne Morse
1. He understands that your case is about you or your company, not about him.
2. You and Morse will enjoy working together.
