Wayne Morse, Jr.

Wayne Morse is an A-V rated lawyer (Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating) and has been selected consistently every year to Alabama Super Lawyers, most recently in 2023, for his work in business, employment and civil litigation. He represents plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts throughout the South. He is a Senior Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America, which honors experienced trial lawyers and litigators, and a Fellow, American Bar Foundation. Within the Litigation Counsel of America, he has been tapped into two elite honoraries, the Order of Justitia and the Order of Certus, based on his winning trial and appellate records. He has been recognized as one of Birmingham's "Top Attorneys" in a vote by other attorneys. He was also named as one of Birmingham’s Top Civil Rights Attorneys by his peers in the 2017 and 2018 Birmingham Bar Association Poll, and a 2018 Top Attorney in Civil Litigation by Birmingham Magazine. He is a fellow of the Birmingham Bar Association.

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 has devoted time to pro bono cases. He has been a faculty member of the Bibb Allen Trial Academy. Morse’s outstanding advocacy was proven when he convinced the beautiful Dianne Clark Morse, a successful entrepreneur, to marry him. His father was a highly decorated Marine who served the United States in two wars. 


Areas Of Practice
Business and Commercial Law
Business Organizations
Education Law
Employment Law


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
Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America (an honor society for experienced and effective litigators and trial lawyers)
Council on Litigation Management
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
Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Alabama State Bar
Birmingham Bar Association
Defense Research Institute
Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
Rotary Club of Birmingham
Newcomen Society; Honored for fund raising and support for Multiple Sclerosis.

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