Franklin A. "Steve" Morse II is in the firm's South Bend, Indiana office and now serves of counsel (retired).
Specializing in the more complex cases, he has managed litigation in federal and state courts in areas as diverse as commercial and business transactions, labor injunctions, civil rights, and injuries to person and property. He has a special interest in litigation ethics and injunctions and has appeared on seminar panels and published articles on both subjects. Mr. Morse is a member of the American, Indiana State and Seventh Circuit Bar Associations and is admitted to practice in the federal and state courts in Indiana, the Seventh Circuit and District of Columbia Circuit Courts of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court. He is also a member of the American and Indiana Civil Liberties Unions, having been designated Attorney of the Year by the latter organization in 1991.
Mr. Morse graduated with a liberal arts degree from Williams College in 1957. He attended the Graduate Division of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania and took post-graduate studies in philosophy and theology at the University of Notre Dame before entering law school. He graduated in 1964 from Notre Dame Law School, where he was managing editor of the law journal. Before joining the firm in 1966, he served two years as a law clerk to then Chief Judge Robert A. Grant of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
Franklin A. "Steve" Morse II is in the firm's South Bend, Indiana office and now serves of counsel (retired).
Specializing in the more complex cases, he has managed litigation in federal and state courts in areas as diverse as commercial and business transactions, labor injunctions, civil rights, and injuries to person and property. He has a special interest in litigation ethics and injunctions and has appeared on seminar panels and published articles on both subjects. Mr. Morse is a member of the American, Indiana State and Seventh Circuit Bar Associations and is admitted to practice in the federal and state courts in Indiana, the Seventh Circuit and District of Columbia Circuit Courts of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court. He is also a member of the American and Indiana Civil Liberties Unions, having been designated Attorney of the Year by the latter organization in 1991.
Mr. Morse graduated with a liberal arts degree from Williams College in 1957. He attended the Graduate Division of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania and took post-graduate studies in philosophy and theology at the University of Notre Dame before entering law school. He graduated in 1964 from Notre Dame Law School, where he was managing editor of the law journal. Before joining the firm in 1966, he served two years as a law clerk to then Chief Judge Robert A. Grant of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.