Roger Morris, R.Ph

Timely, discerning pharmacy industry insight and counsel

Roger Morris represents pharmacies and related health care entities in a wide variety of regulatory compliance and transactional matters. A practicing pharmacist before becoming a lawyer more than 30 years ago, Roger brings deep experience in the pharmacy industry to the work he does for:

• Retail pharmacies, including mail order
• Pharmacy wholesalers
• Compounding pharmacies
• Veterinary pharmacies
• Pharmacy benefit managers (PBM)
• Pharmaceutical manufacturers
• Health care providers, including hospitals, health systems and medical staff

He also has experience in the highly innovative telemedicine and telepharmacy sectors, assisting clients with the unique state and federal regulatory compliance issues they face, as well as acquisitions and the creation of and construction of facilities. Knowing the pharmacy world as he does – its language, business models and practices, and industry actors – Roger is able to combine uncommon industry insight with deep knowledge of his client’s businesses to address their legal and business needs.

Roger is the section chair for Quarles' Commercial Litigation, Product Liability, Bankruptcy, and Health Law Practice Groups, former chair of the Health Law Practice Group and a member of the firm's governing executive committee.

• Advising on licensing of new pharmacy locations.
• Responding to regulatory inquiries and investigations before state pharmacy boards.
• Developing complex new programs that include multiple points in the pharmacy distribution process.
• Providing counsel on matters involving multiple state jurisdictions.