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 Email: resolveit@bellsouth.net

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ADR Services: Mediation (Superior Court) Arbitration (Civil/Commercial)

Formal Certifications: Superior Court Mediator Clerk Program Mediator Superior Court Judicial Districts served: 3A, 7A, 7BC, 9A, 10, 11B, 14, 15A, 15B, 17A, 17B, 18, 19B, 19D, 21, 22, 23, 25A, 25B, 28, 29A, 29B, 30B [ Click for Map of N. Carolina's Districts ]

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 Notes:

N. C. Superior Court Judge, 1981-2005. Cases mediated include medical and legal malpractice, premises liability/slip and fall, personal injury, wrongful death, FELA, residential alteration/renovation and construction, alienation of affections/criminal conversation, employment (retaliatory discharge), nursing home liability, commercial landlord/tenant, rent abatement, unfair and deceptive trade practices, debt collection/wrongful credit reporting, conversion, sale of businesses, breach of residential retirement contract, fraud in sale of health insurance policy, public records, and negligent lending, Have mediated (including several pre-suit mediations), for Superior Courts in 20 Piedmont and Western N. C. counties and the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

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

Languages

English

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: Administrative Fee $150.00; Hourly fee for conference to impasse or finalization of Memorandum of Mediated Settlement $175.00 ($150.00 in Rockingham County). No charge for travel in central N. C. within 100 miles (one way) of Reidsville. No charge for travel to Asheville area or Southern Pines area. Other travel subject to negotiation. Multi-day mediation- actual hotel and meals.

Payment: Payment is expected upon completion of the settlement conference, unless prior arrangements for payment have been made.

Cancellation Policy: Administrative fee only if personally notified (through my cellphone 336-613-0260) of actual settlement 48 hours before scheduled conference. Otherwise, if postponded or cancelled without good cause (as defined in Rule 7) less than 14 days before conference $150.00, except $250 if posponed without good cause within 7 calendar days.

AVAILABILITY & BOOKING INFORMATION

Calendar Last Updated: 16 May 12	Click your preferred date to send our office a Date Request form. All such requests will go immediately to Pat Morgan's scheduling staff (resolveit@bellsouth.net)