Morry S. Cole

Morry S. Cole is a director at Gray Ritter Graham, in St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Cole focuses his practice exclusively on complex civil litigation.  He handles product liability, catastrophic personal injury, aviation, wrongful death, motor vehicle lawsuits and business disputes for clients in Missouri and throughout the midwest. He is an instrument-rated pilot

Mr. Cole graduated from Baylor University with a B.B.A. in finance in 1993,.  He earned his J.D. from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1997, where he was an editor of the Missouri Law Review. He is licensed to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri as well as before all Missouri state courts.  He has handled cases in many other states. 

He has served the profession of law extensively. He was the 2017-2018 President of The Missouri Bar, a current member of The Missouri Bar Board of Governors, and a member of The University of Missouri Law Society and the University of Missouri Jefferson Club. Previously he served as the state-wide Chairperson of The Missouri Bar YLS Counsel, a member of the Board of Governors of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, a member of the Theodore MacMillian Inn of Court and a trustee of the University of Missouri Law School Foundation Board of Trustees.

He has written articles for the Missouri Law Review and the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys. He has published articles and continuing legal education materials relating to Wrongful Death cases in the Missouri Bar Journal and the Missouri Bar CLE Black Book on Damages in Civil Cases. He has lectured for the University of Missouri, the Missouri Bar, the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and many civic and scholastic organizations. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Pre-Trial Litigation and Settlement at the Washington University School of Law since 2008.

Mr. Cole is a 2016 recipient of The Missouri Bar’s President’s Award. In 2003, he received The Missouri Bar Foundation’s Lon O. Hocker Award for “outstanding expression to the qualities of professional competence, industry, integrity and courtesy indicative of an able trial lawyer.” In 2005, he was given The Missouri Bar Foundation’s David J. Dixon Appellate Advocacy Award for “outstanding achievement in appellate practice.” Mr. Cole was also named the 2006 recipient of the St. Louis County Bar Association’s Roy F. Essen Outstanding Young Lawyer Award. The annual award is given for excellence as a lawyer, distinguished service to the Bar, and outstanding service to the community. Mr. Cole is the only attorney ever to receive all three of these prestigious awards. Mr. Cole was also named a “2007 Up & Coming Lawyer” by Missouri Lawyers Weekly.