When I was growing up . . . Today, thankfully, significant healing has occurred. Morris said that the experience of growing up in a small town during this time taught him a lot about the importance of personal values and helped influence his decision to become a lawyer. During college, Morris was active in politics, but despite going to law school in Washington, D.C., decided not to pursue politics as a vocational interest. It's a choice I've never regretted.
Employment law has a real human interest side, as well as being intellectually challenging.
It also offers a great blend of litigation and client counseling opportunities. That's nearly always true. In a San Diego labor arbitration in the mid-1980s, the grievant had been discharged for allegedly falsifying a bereavement leave to attend her grandfather's funeral in Kansas, and was seeking reinstatement and back pay. Through a fair amount of sleuthing, however, Morris discovered that the grandfather actually had died in San Diego several years earlier, and Morris obtained the obituary from a San Diego newspaper. After the grievant testified on direct to the entire story of her trip to Kansas, the funeral and associated events, Morris confronted her with the obituary and her evident fabrication of the entire episode.