Wayne Morse "never had a bad day at Cumberland." In the mid-70s, Morse explained, Cumberland had the best possible educators for aspiring lawyers: Frank Donaldson, a drafter of the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, Charles Gamble, author of the treatise on the Alabama Rules of Evidence, and contracts scholar Brad Bishop. During his time as a student, he made lifelong associations and friendships, including ones with Charlie Waldrep and Mike Kendrick with whom he has practiced law for decades.

Morse is a partner and trial lawyer at Waldrep, Stewart & Kendrick, LLP. He has litigated in trial and appellate courts in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Georgia. His practice involves commercial, employment and civil rights cases. He is a fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, the American Bar Foundation and the Birmingham Bar Foundation.

As a longtime Cumberland advocate, Morse is involved with raising support for Cumberland's advocacy program. He has judged mock trials and authored "Death Actions for Federal Rights in Alabama," which was published in the Cumberland Law Review. Morse funds a book scholarship in honor of his late father, Hoss Morse, U.S.M.C., which is given to a deserving student who served in the military.

Morse was counsel to Tarrant in Jefferson v. City of Tarrant, 522 U.S. 75 (1997) and to Cory Maples in Maples v. Thomas, 565 U.S. 266 (2012), a landmark due process decision holding that Maples, convicted of murder and facing a death sentence, must have another opportunity in court because of lawyer abandonment.

"Serving at Cumberland has been gratifying, allowing me to be of use and to stay connected to an institution to which I owe everything," Morse said. "Cumberland has had success, but I am confident we will see the plans of the indefatigable and visionary Dean Blake Hudson accomplished and expectations exceeded. Cumberland is and will be even more so, a top tier law school."

August 2025

After a six-day arbitration, all of Waldrep Stewart & Kendrick, LLP's clients - sued for fraud, conversion, and interference with contractual rights - were dismissed in a complex commercial case brought by a national restoration company. Wayne Morse represented these individuals.

Waldrep Stewart & Kendrick LLP secured a dismissal in a Homewood, Alabama police shooting litigation.
Logan v Homewood

November 2023

Waldrep Stewart & Kendrick LLP is proud to announce that the Supreme Court of Alabama has affirmed a judgment for a police officer and the City of Homewood for defamation. Attorneys were Michael Kendrick and Wayne Morse

Waldrep, Stewart & Kendrick LLP congratulates Wayne Morse on his selction to Super Lawyers for 2023-24.

June 2022
Waldrep, Stewart & Kendrick congratulates Wayne Morse on being named a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Being named a Fellow represents recognition by your colleagues that you have distinguished yourself as an outstanding professional who has made a sustained contribution to our field and that you meet the standards of integrity, professionalism and character.

December 2021
Congratulations to Charlie Waldrep on his December 2, 2021 induction into the Greater Birmingham Home Builders Association Hall of Fame in recognition of his 25 years of leadership of the Governmental Affairs Committee.

September 2021
Waldrep, Stewart & Kendrick LLP has scored a big win for the University of West Alabama and public education in the Supreme Court of Alabama. Mike Kendrick and Wayne Morse prevailed for UWA on September 17, 2021 in a lawsuit brought against UWA by the Sumter County Board of Education. The Board sued to stop UWA from allowing a public charter school on the UWA campus based on a restrictive covenant in a land sales contract between the Board and UWA. The Supreme Court affirmed dismissal in the trial court based on a provision of Alabama School Choice and Student Opportunity Act. The Supreme Court held that the restrictive covenant contradicts the Act's stated policy of making a closed or unused public school facility or property located in a school system from which [a public charter school] draws its students available to a qualified charter-school organization in Sumter County. 16-6F-11(b), Ala. Code 1975 More broadly, the restrictive covenant thwarts the overall purpose evinced by the [Charter Schools] Act, which is to foster competition in public education by encouraging the establishment and proliferation of charter schools, thereby improving the quality of education services provided to students throughout Alabama[.]

November 2020
Waldrep, Stewart & Kendrick LLP congratulates Wayne Morse and Mike Kendrick on their selction to Super Lawyers for 2020.

Waldrep Stewart & Kendrick, LLP and Wayne Morse obtained an affirmance and judgment against the Jefferson County Board of Education and in favor of the City of Irondale in the Supreme Court of Alabama in a lawsuit challenging the City's occupational tax.

April 2019
Waldrep Stewart & Kendrick LLP is pleased to announce that Wayne Morse has been named an honoree in the Birmingham Business Journal's Best of the Bar for 2019.

November 2018
Waldrep Stewart & Kendrick LLP is proud to announce that Wayne Morse has once again received Super Lawyer recognition. He was selected for this honor subsequent to undergoing an evaluation of many different factors including peer recognition and professional achievement.

April 2018
Wayne Morse has been named a 2018 TOP Attorney in Civil Litigation






February 2018
Congratulations to Wayne Morse on being named as one of Birmingham's Top Civil Rights Attorneys by his peers in the 2018 Birmingham Bar Association Poll.



February 2018
Congratulations to Charlie Waldrep on being named Top Flight Attorneys by B-Metro Magazine.