Vincent Morris is an award winning lawyer and is the recipient of both local & national awards. He has 14 years of court experience helping clients in domestic and criminal litigation. Before establishing the Law Office of Vincent Morris, he was a founding partner member of the OpenLaw (Open Access Law Firm, PLLC). Before entering private practice Vincent Morris was Director of the Arkansas Legal Services Partnership and the Arkansas Pro Bono Partnership.

Morris is recognized by the American Bar Association as a Legal Rebel. One of the few attorneys across the nation that are “the innovators – the folks who’ve found a different path, some new way to blend the needs of their clients or their practice, or even their own needs of personal expression, into the way they practice the law.”

Morris was also an Adjunct Professor at the UALR Bowen School of Law in Little Rock, Arkansas where he taught cutting edge seminars to upper level law students. Seminars included: Justice Technology: New Models, Markets & Access to Justice; and Entrepreneurship, Law and Innovation.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS, ASSOCIATIONS, & COMMITTEES

• Arkansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (AACDL)
• American Bar Association (ABA)
• Community Legal Access, LLC, Board of Director
• National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA)
• National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) – Technology Committee Member
• Pulaski County Bar Association
• Supreme Court of Arkansas Self-Represented Litigants Task Force
• University of Arkansas William H. Bowen School of Law Mentor Program
• Universal Life Church Ministries – Ordained
• Volunteer Organization of the Center for Arkansas Legal Services (VOCALS)

AWARDS, HONORS & SCHOLARSHIPS

• 2017 C.A.R.E Award
• 2015 Marie Interfaith Civic Leadership Award
• 2014 Innovations in Equal Justice Award – National Legal Aid & Defender Association
• 2013 Center for Arkansas Legal Services 10 Years Dedicated Serve Award
• 2012 Legal Rebel – American Bar Association