Morris Law Firm

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About MLF

• MLF leads clients through the process of strategic negotiation and dispute resolution with honesty and integrity.
• MLF respects the character and well being of each client.
• MLF is a business of values, stressing mutual respect and trust for each other.

Morris Law Firm is more than just a group of lawyers. We are a team of professionals committed to finding and negotiating solutions that save our clients time and money. While we are experienced in guiding our clients through the litigation process, we believe that negotiation, not litigation, is often the best and most cost-effective way to resolve many legal issues. In addition to understanding the law, we understand business. Why is this important? Simple. We believe that it is impossible to provide effective solutions for our clients' businesses unless we first understand their businesses.

How We Work

Morris Law Firm lawyers believe in taking a positive approach to our clients’ needs and seek to develop outcomes to business issues that further our clients’ desires. Since its beginnings in 1965, the Firm has served as a trusted advisor to our clients. We help with both strategic and tactical planning for our clients and encourage, to the maximum extent possible, proactive rather than reactive thinking. The Firm’s representations are typically long-term and relationship-based, extending beyond localized transactions to encompass the full range of our clients’ needs and objectives. The Firm’s small size allows its lawyers to develop and maintain a close relationship with our clients. Each of our attorneys is fiercely committed to ongoing professional development and believes in combining that development experience with real-world expertise in today’s business and legal marketplace. Going to court is easy – all it takes is time and money. But at Morris Law Firm we’re more than just attorneys – we’re business people. Understanding our clients and their businesses allows us to create and implement effective strategies that solve business problems before they become legal problems.

Morris Law Firm takes a team-based approach to the challenges that our clients encounter in their businesses. This approach includes both internal and an external components: internal, to the extent that a Morris Law Firm lawyer will effectively utilize all of the Firm’s resources in order to best achieve client goals; and external, in that the Firm seeks to integrate itself into a client’s existing business and legal relationships to the maximum extent practicable in furtherance of that client’s objectives, rather than to displace those relationships. Morris Law Firm assembles the best team possible to make sure that our clients’ challenges are resolved, whether by Firm lawyers or by outside resources. Many large firms market themselves as one-stop shops for their clients and claim that they can satisfy all of their client’s needs through the use of the firm’s own lawyers. Unlike those firms, Morris Law Firm does not attempt to provide total and comprehensive legal services to our clients. Instead, Morris Law Firm provides a single point of contact for our clients and identifies the need for, and coordinates the work of, outside specialty lawyers when necessary in connection with a particular representation. Morris Law Firm believes this approach serves our clients’ interests in the best possible manner by providing the highest quality business counseling, without concern as to whether that counseling is generated within or outside of the Firm. The Firm’s clients can, therefore, feel confident that they are the recipients of not simply the best legal advice the Firm can provide, but also, through our association of outside specialists with respect to particular matters, of the best legal advice in the country.

Morris Law Firm Fee Structures

Effective representation doesn’t have to be expensive. Morris Law Firm provides a team of attorneys without our clients needing a team of bankers. Our size, team-based model, flexible billing, and commitment to building long-term relationships means our clients can afford to get advice and direction anytime they want it – not just when they think they need it.

Morris Law Firm provides a variety of fee structures that are tailored to our clients’ varying financial needs. Although the traditional “hourly-rate” approach to billing works well in certain circumstances, our attorneys are willing to explore a variety of billing options, including the concept of “project-based” billing in which a client pays a specific fee for services performed by Morris Law Firm in connection with an engagement. Unlike hourly-rate billing, project-based billing works well for some clients because it allows them to build the cost of necessary legal services into their budgets at the outset of an engagement.

Morris Law Firm does not charge its clients for small copying jobs (fewer than 100 pages) or for routine long-distance telephone call charges. Larger copying jobs are outsourced to third-party service providers, and the actual cost is then passed along to the client as part of that client’s bill. If a Morris Law Firm attorney and a client decide to expand the legal team and to bring in the help of third-party specialists in order to achieve the client’s goals, then only the actual costs of such third-party specialists are included in the client’s bill. Similarly, transaction-related filing fees and conference calls utilizing third-party service providers and similar charges are billed to the client at their actual costs.