Background
Banks, Morris W. was born on May 3, 1939 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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Morris W. Banks
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Dartmouth College (Bachelor of Arts, 1961). Columbia University (Bachelor of Laws, 1964). New York University (Master of Laws in taxation, 1965).
Career
Worked at Sorokin Sorokin Gross Hyde, & Williams Professional Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) specializing in General Practice including Administrative, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Banking, Bankruptcy Reorganizations and Loan Workouts, Construction, Computer, Corporation, Employment, Estate Planning, Family, Insurance, Employment, Legislative Practice, Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Negligence, Pension and Profit Sharing, Probate, Real Estate, Secured and Unsecured Lending, Securities and Taxation Law. Trials and Appeals in all State and Federal Courts. Admitted to the bar, 1964, Connecticut.
Adjunct Faculty Member, University of Connecticut School of Law, 1980.
Alternate Member, Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of Bloomfield, Connecticut, 1969. Member, Bloomfield Town Council, 1969-1973.
Panel Member, American Language Institute -American Bar Association New England Federal Securities Law Institute and author of "Current Developments in Real Estate Limited Partnership Financings," October, 1986. And Panel Member, American Language Institute -American Bar Association Third New England Federal Securities Law Institute and author of "Issuance of Legal Opinions in Connection with Private Placements," September, 1990.
Member: Hartford County (Member, Committee on Liaison with Internal Revenue Service, 1970.
Chairman, 1976. Member, Continuing Legal Education Committee and Lecturer in Taxation, 1980) and Connecticut (Member, Executive Committee, Tax Section, 1979. Lecturer in Taxation, Continuing Legal Education, 1971.
Member, Committee on Corporations and Other Business Organizations, 1970-1976) Bar Associations.
History: Sorokin Sorokin Gross Hyde & Williams Professional Corporation is a medium-sized (21-attorney) law firm with one office in downtown Hartford, one in Simsbury, Connecticut, and one in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. The firm was formed in 1989 through the merger of Sorokin & Sorokin Professional Corporation and Gross, Hyde & Williams, one of the oldest continuous law partnerships in Connecticut.
Achievements
Membership
Member, Bloomfield Town Council, 1969-1973. Panel Member, American Language Institute -American Bar Association New England Federal Securities Law Institute and author of "Current Developments in Real Estate Limited Partnership Financings," October, 1986. And Panel Member, American Language Institute -American Bar Association Third New England Federal Securities Law Institute and author of "Issuance of Legal Opinions in Connection with Private Placements," September, 1990.
Member: Hartford County (Member, Committee on Liaison with Internal Revenue Service, 1970.
Chairman, 1976; Member, Continuing Legal Education Committee and Lecturer in Taxation, 1980) and Connecticut (Member, Executive Committee, Tax Section, 1979. Lecturer in Taxation, Continuing Legal Education, 1971.
Member, Committee on Corporations and Other Business Organizations, 1970-1976) Bar Associations.
