James Cooper Morton
![]() | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
James Cooper Morton, C.S., LL.M. (born 1969) was once a Canadian lawyer with political aspirations, teaching law part-time, blogging and writing in the legal and popular press. In June 2018, he was charged with two counts of forgery of court documents, uttering forged documents, attempting to obstruct justice, signing what purported to be an affidavit without authority, bigamy, and procuring a feigned marriage. The Law Society of Ontario suspended Mr. Morton from practicing law in August 2018 [1] and he pled guilty to criminal charges in April 2019.[2]
Biography
Early life
Morton was born in Painesville, Ohio, and raised near Hamilton, Ontario. He received a B.Sc. from the University of Western Ontario, an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School and an LL.M. from University of Leicester. Morton graduated from Osgoode as Silver Medallist, clerked with the Chief Justice of Ontario, stood first in the Bar Admission Course, and practiced with the law firm with Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington.
Career
Mr. Morton was the principal at Morton Barristers when his legal career ended because of his criminal conduct. Prior to that he was a founding partner at Morton Karrass LLP, and a founding partner and head of the litigation group at Steinberg, Morton, Hope and Israel LLP. His practice focused on commercial, criminal and constitutional litigation. He took an active role in the field of legal education, lecturing in the area of evidence and advanced evidence at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and Thomas M. Cooley Law School at Lansing, Michigan. Mr. Morton also taught Administration at the Law Clerks Institute, and has taught in the areas of Civil Litigation, Professional Responsibility, Bankruptcy and Business Law of the Bar Admission Course. Mr. Morton published 18 legal textbooks, was past President of the Ontario Bar Association and a regular media commentator. He was a certified specialist of the Law Society of Upper Canada in the area of Civil Litigation. In 2013, he received the Ontario Bar Association's Distinguished Service Award.[3]
Politics
Morton was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada and has served in positions at the riding and party levels. In 2011, he ran for office as the Federal Liberal candidate in 2011 in the Ontario riding of Oshawa. He is the former President of the Thornhill Federal Liberal Riding Association (TFLRA) and resigned the position of executive vice president of the riding on November 26, 2013, in order to contest the federal Liberal Party nomination.[4]
References
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20180821233431/http://mortonbarristers.ca/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120521113506/http://www.smhilaw.com/lawyer_morton.htm
- http://jmortonmusings.blogspot.ca/
- https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9518656-ex-wife-of-hamilton-bigamist-says-her-life-has-been-ripped-apart-after-fake-divorce/
- https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.5198571/it-was-a-lie-says-law-clerk-who-married-her-boss-only-to-learn-he-faked-his-divorce-1.5226521
- All articles with dead external links
- Articles with dead external links from January 2020
- Articles with permanently dead external links
- Articles with topics of unclear notability from October 2017
- All articles with topics of unclear notability
- Biography articles with topics of unclear notability
- BLP articles lacking sources from April 2010
- All BLP articles lacking sources
- Articles needing cleanup from September 2022
- Articles with bare URLs for citations from September 2022
- All articles with bare URLs for citations
- Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from September 2022
- All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify
- Articles with multiple maintenance issues
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Lawyers in Ontario
- Canadian legal scholars