Judge Joseph R. Slights III rejoins Morris James LLP
Morris James LLP has announced that Judge Joseph R. Slights III will become a partner at the firm after concluding his 12-year term of distinguished service as a judge on the Delaware Superior Court where, among other duties, he served as a presiding judge in the court’s Complex Commercial Litigation Division. Slights will focus on Morris James’ complex civil and corporate litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery, Superior Court and the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. In addition, Slights will chair the firm’s alternative dispute resolution practice and will be available to assist in the resolution and court-appointed management of complex civil disputes.
Slights is an elected member of The American Law Institute. He has lectured numerous times in Delaware and across the country on many topics, including judicial case management of complex civil litigation, electronic discovery, alternative dispute resolution, and substantive areas of Delaware commercial and business law. He is a member of the American Bar Association, where he served as a delegate to the National Conference of State Trial Court Judges and a liaison between the Judicial Division and Business Law Section of the association. He is a past chairman of the Health Law section and past judicial member of the Executive Committee of the Delaware State Bar Association. He is a past president of the Richard S. Rodney Inn of Court and continues to serve on the inn’s executive committee.
He is a charter member of the American College of Business Court Judges and served on its board of directors. He is a member of the advisory board for the Georgetown University Law Center’s e-Discovery Institute and a member of the of the American Judicature Society’s National Advisory Council, Carpenter Jury Center Advisory Committee and Editorial Committee. He is also an adjunct professor at Widener University School of Law.
Slights received his B.S. degree in political science from James Madison University in 1985 and his J.D. degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law in 1988. He was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1988. He is a member of the bars of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.
Morris James officials are pleased to have Slights rejoin the firm and look forward to his contributions to the growth of the firm’s complex civil litigation practice and leadership of the alternative dispute resolution practice.
