Gary K. Morrell

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HONORS AND PEER REVIEW RATINGS

Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers

Listed in The Best Lawyers In America Directory, Woodward/White, in each edition from 1994 through the present date, in the practice areas of Medical Malpractice and/or Personal Injury Law.

AV peer review rated (highest category) by Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory in each edition from 1991 through the present date.

Included in Mid-South Super Lawyers Directory: 2006, 2008, 2009 (Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice).

The Daily News (Memphis, 1/8/09), "Morrell Honored for Work In Malpractice, Personal Injury Law" --- interview at http://memphisdailynews.com/editorial/article.aspx?id=40251

RECOVERIES, SETTLEMENTS AND/OR JURY VERDICTS

Plaintiffs’ Counsel for Recoveries Exceeding the Total Sum of $41,000,000 During Career.

Million Dollar Recoveries and/or Jury Verdicts against Health Care Professionals including:

Gribble v. Memphis Cancer Center ($2,500,000 jury verdict for wrongful death of housewife in Blytheville, Arkansas, where defendant negligently failed to irradiate a post-lumpectomy patient);

Bradford v. LeBonheur Hospital ($1,000,000 jury verdict in Memphis, Tennessee, for the wrongful death of a 3 year old child, where a hospital's emergency department failed to diagnose/treat patient's infectious disease).

Medical malpractice recoveries at or about the multi-seven figure range in cases involving the following subject matter in Memphis, Tennessee:

Brain damage and wrongful death from failing to relieve excessive intra-cranial pressure following brain surgery;

Wrongful death for failing to diagnose/treat cervical cancer in timely manner;

Brain damage from anesthesiologist's premature extubation of patient;

Wrongful death for failing to diagnose/treat skin cancer in a timely manner;

Brain damage from failing to treat post-operative bleeding in timely manner.

[Attorney Gary Morrell does not offer any guarantee of case results. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.]

LICENSURES, ADMISSIONS AND PRACTICE AREAS

Licensed to practice Law in Tennessee (1980) and, also, in Arkansas (2006).

Practice Areas since 1981: Medical Malpractice; Wrongful Death; Personal Injury Litigation.

Admitted to practice in U.S. District Court, W.D. Tennessee (1980) and U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit (1981).

EDUCATION, LAW SCHOOL AND LAW REVIEW

Education: University of Tennessee (B.S., 1973); Memphis State University School of Law (J.D., 1980).

Graduated in top 2% of Law School class in 1980.

Member of Law Review, 1977-1980, and Member of Editorial Board and Associate Editor, 1979- 1980, Memphis State Law Review.

FEDERAL JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP

Federal Judicial Clerkship: U.S. District Court, W.D. Tennessee, 80-81; Law Clerk to Honorable Odell Horton (also serving by designation on U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, 6/81).

SEMINARS, PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES

Lectured at Legal Seminars on the following subjects: Medical Malpractice; Trial Practice and Civil Litigation; Wrongful Death; Personal Injury; Expert Testimony; Cross-Examination of Experts and Witnesses; Damages; Jury Voir Dire; Presentation of Medical Malpractice Mock Trials in Knoxville, Nashville, Tri-Cities and Memphis, Tennessee.

Seminars presented to Doctors, Nurses, Residents and Health Care Personnel on Professional Liability and Risk Management in Memphis, Nashville and Jackson, Tennessee.

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIP

Academic Award: Memphis State Law Alumni Scholarship Award, 1979.

Recipient: West Publishing Company Hornbook Award; Corpus Juris Secundum Award; U.S. Law Week Award; American Jurisprudence Awards (in various areas of the law).

LEGAL PUBLICATION

Author: Negligence: Tortfeasors Owe a Duty of Care to a Child That was Not Conceived When its Mother was Wrongfully Injured, 8 Memphis State Law Review 685 (1978).

BAR MEMBERSHIP

Member: Memphis Bar Association.

LAW FIRM AFFILIATIONS

Boswell Law Firm, 45 N. Third Street, Memphis, TN and Bryant, Arkansas (1996 - present date).

Cox & Associates, Memphis, TN (1981 - 1996)

E-mail: garykm@boswellaw.com

Gary K. Morrell

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