About Roger

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 a member of the firm's governing Executive Committee, section chair for Quarles' Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Product Liability, Bankruptcy and Health & Life Sciences Practice Groups, and former chair of the Health & Life Sciences Practice Group.

Experience in Action

  • 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.

Professional Recognitions

  • Best Lawyers in America® "Lawyer of the Year" (2022: Phoenix Health Care Law)
  • Best Lawyers in America® (2005-present: Health Care Law)
  • Chambers USA® (2015-present: Healthcare)
  • Martindale-Hubbell® AV Peer Review Rated (2000-present)
  • Southwest Super Lawyers® (2001-present: Health Care)
  • AZ Big Media "Arizona Business Leader" (2015-2017, 2019: Healthcare Law)
  • America’s Top 100 Attorneys® (2017)
  • Arizona Business "Magazine Top Health Care Leader" (2016)
  • Arizona Business Magazine Health Care Leadership Awards "Legal Advocate" (2016)
  • Arizona Business Journal "Health Care Hero" (2015: Non Physician Category)
  • Arizona Pharmacy Association Pharmacy Hall of Fame inductee (2014)
  • AZ Business Magazine "Arizona’s Top Lawyers" (2014: Healthcare)
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Distinguished Alumnus (2013)
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona / Association of Fundraising Professionals, Spirit of Philanthropy Award (2013)
  •  Arizona Pharmacy Alliance, Bowl of Hygeia Award (2011)
  • Arizona Pharmacy Alliance "Pharmacist of the Year" (2005)
  • Phoenix Business Journal "Best of the Bar" (2003–2005: Health Care)
  • Nightingale's Healthcare News "Outstanding Healthcare Transaction Lawyer" (2005)

Professional & Civic Activities

  • American Society for Pharmacy Law, fellow, past president
  • American Pharmacists Association, member
  • Arizona Pharmacy Association, board of directors
  • American College of Legal Medicine, member
  • American Health Law Association, member
  • American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, member
  • Arizona Association of Health Care Lawyers, member, former board member
  • Defense Research Institute, member
  • LeadingAge Arizona, former outside general counsel
  • Southwest Behavioral & Health Services, past chair and board member emeritus
  • American Bar Association, Health Law Section, Products Liability Committee, Litigation Section, member
  • Maricopa County Bar Association, member
  • State Bar of Arizona, member; Labor & Employment Section Executive Committee, former member
  • Arizona State University Center for Law, Science & Innovation, advisory board member
  • Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, adjunct faculty, Food and Drug Law and Pharmaceutical Products Liability
  • Arizona State Board of Pharmacy, Rule Writing Task Force, member
  • Midwestern University College of Pharmacy, Dean’s Council, adjunct faculty, Pharmacy Law 
  • University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, adjunct faculty, Pharmacy Law
  • University of Pittsburgh, Dean’s Council, adjunct faculty, School of Pharmacy
  • Arizona Science Center, former board member
  • Valley Big Brothers/Big Sisters, former board member, past secretary

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