A North Carolina native, T.C. Morphis earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and History, a Juris Doctor, and a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from UNC–Chapel Hill.

For over twenty years, Mr. Morphis’ primary practice areas have included general local government, zoning and land use, code enforcement, board governance, public records, and Constitutional law. He provides general legal counsel for one North Carolina county and numerous municipalities, and he regularly represents developers, citizen groups and other private clients in land-use entitlement matters and litigation throughout the state. Mr. Morphis has experience at all stages of litigation, from quasi-judicial hearings before local boards to trial court work and appellate advocacy before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and North Carolina Supreme Court.

Mr. Morphis is admitted to practice in the State courts in North Carolina and in the United States District Court. He currently serves on the Section Council for the North Carolina Bar Association’s Government and Public Sector Section. He has previously served on the Board of the North Carolina Association of Municipal Attorneys; as the Chair of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Zoning, Planning and Land Use Section Council; and as the Co-Editor of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Land Use Law Quarterly.