Member Profile: Melzer A. (Pat) Morgan Jr.

	Melzer A. (Pat) Morgan Jr. Superior Court Judge, Retired 1607 Courtland Avenue Reidsville (Triad), NC 27320 Tel: (336) 613-0260 Cell/bus Fax: (336) 349-5724	View Printable Resume GoogleMaps for this Location View Available Dates Calendar

ADR Services Include:

Mediation; Arbitration

Agricultural Banking & Finance Class Actions Commercial/Business Community Associations Construction Consumer Fraud Contract Disputes Cross Cultural Debt/Foreclosure Eminent Domain Employment

Insurance Landlord/Tenant Legal Malpractice Libel & Slander Local Government Media & Communications Medical Malpractice Nursing Homes Personal Injury Premises Liability Probate Product Liability

Professional Fees Professional Malpractice Professional Negligence Public Policy Real Estate Religious Institutions Title Disputes Torts Transportation Wrongful Death

BIOGRAPHICAL:

Held court state-wide, engaged in pretrial settlement conferences and trials (jury and non-jury) in full panoply of civil cases including medical, dental, and legal malpractice, premises liability/slip and fall, personal injury, wrongful death, FELA (railroad EE injury), alienation of affections, shopping center construction, residential construction, contracts, major business disputes (Rice v Parks), "vanishing premium" insurance policies, product liability, undue influence, caveat, boundary, partition of real property, and unfair trade practices.

Certified by North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission as a Superior Court Mediator in 1998. Involved with judicial district administration of program for Mediated Settlement Conferences from inception of program in North Carolina. Practice began April 2005

N. C. Agricultural Mediation Program (U.S. Department of Agricultura) Certified Mediator 2007-

General trial and appellate practice, 1967-1981, Gwyn, Gwyn & Morgan, Reidsville (Martindale Hubbell AV)

EDUCATION:

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B. A. in Political Science, 1962
• UNC School of Law, J. D., 1967
• Licensed N. C. State Bar, 1967
• National Judicial College, General Jurisd. Session 1982, Fairness in Courts, 1992

ADR Training:

• Forty hour civil trial court mediation 1996 (Mediation, Inc.)
• "Getting Past Impasse: Settling Insured Claims" 2005
• "When Mediators Listen, People Talk", NCBA Dispute Resolution Section Annual Meeting 2006
• US Department of Agriculture, N. C. Agricultural Mediation Training, Western Carolina University, 2007, 2008, 2009
• "From A to M, Arbitration and Mediation in N. C.", NCBA Dispute Resolution Section Annual Meeting, 2007
• "We Can Work It Out," NCBA Dispute Resolution Section Annual Meeting, 2008
• "Decision Tree Analysis for Lawyers and Mediators," NC Central University Law School, 2008

Memberships & Affiliations

• President, N. C. Conference of Superior Court Judges 2003-04.
• Commissioner, N. C. Indigent Defense Services Commission, 2000-08.
• Speaker on legal and judicial ethics, professionalism, evidence, injunctions, sentencing, and trial practice and procedure, UNC School of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law, UNC School of Government, Conference of Superior Court Judges, and bar groups
• Commission on Race Relations in the Legal Profession in North Carolina 1993-1996
• N. C. Bar Association, Vice President 1985
• ABA, Dispute Resolutiion Section
• NCBA Dispute Resolution Section Council 2007- (Pro-Bono Co-Chair)
• NCBA Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee, 2008-

Rates

Melzer A. (Pat) Morgan Jr. is a member of the NC Academy of Superior Court Mediators, the state's premier roster of certified attorney-mediators. The NCASCM profile includes more specific local information, such as counties and regions served, and can be visited directly at www.ncmediators.org/pat-morgan