Mary E. Morris - Nashville, TN

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, Tennessee, May, 1988
    J.D.
    Honors: Member, Moot Court Team
    Honors: Member, Moot Court Board
    Honors: Member, Order of the Coif
    Honors: Law Review Associate Editor's Award
    Honors: Recipient of American Jurisprudence Awards
    Law Review: Vanderbilt University Law Review, Associate Editor

• Non Legal Education

  • Western Kentucky University, December, 1982
    B.A.
    Honors: summa cum laude
    Honors: Recipient, Award of Excellence Scholarship
    Honors: A.M. Stickles History Award Scholarship
    Honors: Senior Sorority Woman Highest GPA Award
    Major: History
    Major: Broadcasting

Classes and Seminars

• Advanced Depositions in Tennessee, 2005 - 2006

Representative Cases

• Trinity Industries, Inc. v. McKinnon Bridge Co.
  • Citation: 147 S.W.3d 225
  • Court: Tenn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 2003
• Bridgeport Music Inc. v. Still N the Water Publishing
  • Citation: 327 F.3d 472
  • Court: 6th Cir.
  • Year: 2002
• Trinity Industries, Inc. v. McKinnon Bridge Co.
  • Citation: 77 S.W.3d 159
  • Court: Tenn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 2001
• Gray v. Ford Motor Co.
  • Citation: 914 S.W.2d 464
  • Court: Term.
  • Year: 1996
• Asgrow Seed Co. v. Winterboer
  • Citation: 513 U.S. 179
  • Year: 1995

Published Works

Articles

• Vehicle Black Boxes, Committee on Trial Evidence, American Bar Association Section of Litigation, Vol. 14, No.1, 2005
  
• Asgrow Seed Company vs. Winterboer, 512 U.S. 179, 1995
  

Bar Admissions

• Tennessee, 1988
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Tennessee
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee
• U.S. District Court Western District of Tennessee
• U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1994

Other Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• Tennessee Bar Association
• Nashville Bar Association
• Marion Griffin Chapter of the Lawyers Association for Women
• Tennessee Lawyers Association for Women