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Anthony Morris focuses his practice on business litigation, in addition to professional ethics and entertainment. He represents some of the world's largest companies, with an emphasis on multi-national insurance companies, in complex litigation matters including class actions. Anthony litigates large dollar coverage claims with insureds and handles all types of coverage disputes, with a particular focus on those alleging bad faith. Most recently, he serves as part of a small team of lead counsel defending COVID-19 business interruption claims against one of the world's largest insurers. He has experience in the substantive law regarding first-party property loss. He also has experience rendering coverage opinions, representing clients in alternative dispute resolution, and monitoring and evaluating complex claims. Anthony serves as national coverage counsel for a major insurer, involving hundreds of claims under director and officer liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, commercial general liability, non-profit coverage, cyber coverage, and educational institution coverage. Anthony also regularly provides advice to insurance companies regarding product development and has drafted numerous policy forms for various lines of coverage. He regularly appears before state and federal courts throughout the country in a wide-range of civil litigation matters, and has served as appellate counsel in numerous matters. Anthony also defends corporate directors and officers and licensed professionals in negligence, malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, and/or securities fraud claims.

Anthony served as outside counsel to the Speakers of the 104th-109th Congresses of the United States. He has also represented many members of Congress, as well as certain Georgia elected officials. He represents attorneys in disciplinary proceedings before the Georgia Bar and in professional negligence claims.

In addition, Anthony negotiates literary, television, and speaking contracts for his clients. He has handled several New York Times best selling authors, including "A National Party No More" by Zell Miller; "Lessons Learned The Hard Way" by Newt Gingrich; "Lost Innocence - The JonBenet Ramsey Story" by John & Patsy Ramsey; and "Maya Lord" by John Coe Robbins. He negotiates speaking and broadcast talent contracts for cable and network news. Anthony also represents a range of clients from series creators to reality show contestants. He represents clients involved in the development, production, acquisition, financing, marketing, and distribution of content for motion pictures, television, video, Internet, and other traditional and emerging media, from both a production and investor point of view. He drafts and negotiates various agreements involved in publishing, content production, and financing, including development and production agreements, limited partnership and operating agreements, option and acquisition agreements, and producer/director/talent agreements. 

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