Mr. Morter is a shareholder in the Firm whose practice centers primarily upon the defense of medical malpractice claims and other high exposure personal injury and wrongful death actions. He represents physicians, medical practice groups, hospitals, nursing homes, product manufacturers and suppliers, trucking companies, and airlines.

Appearing frequently before the Circuit Courts in Maryland, Mr. Morter has significant first and second chair trial experience, and has successfully tried many medical malpractice cases to defense verdicts.

Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Morter served as a judicial clerk for Judges James C. Chapin and William J. Rowan, III in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. He has graduate level training in neuroscience and physiology, and has previously worked as a researcher in the Pharmacology Department at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, co-authoring studies appearing in Neuroscience Letters, the European Journal of Pharmacology and the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Mr. Morter is BV® Peer Review Rated in Martindale-Hubbell

Current Employment Position(s):
Shareholder

Bar Admissions: Maryland, 1999 District of Columbia, 2001 U.S. District Court District of Maryland, 2001U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, 2006

Education:
South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas, 1999 J.D.

University of Texas at Austin, 1986 B.A.Honors: With Honors

Professional Associations and Memberships: Maryland State Bar Association