About Margaret A.
Margaret A. Morris earned her J.D. from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School in 1981 after completing a B.A. at Mount St. Mary’s University in 1977. Her legal education dates to the early 1980s, and she has maintained a career that bridges public service and private practice. The timeline of her training and early career places her squarely in the era when utility regulation and transportation law were evolving rapidly in both Pennsylvania and the Midwest.
Her public-sector experience includes a role as legal counsel to Vice Chairman Robert Bloom at the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission in 1995. That position put her inside the regulatory apparatus of the state. She worked on matters that required an understanding of administrative procedure and the practical demands of agency decision-making. The PUC role informed much of her later work and gave her direct exposure to how utilities and regulated carriers interact with state regulators.
In 2007 she became a partner at Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP. As a partner she handled matters for clients that operate in regulated industries. Her portfolio at the firm included representation before state agencies and tribunals, and work on licensing and compliance questions for businesses that must answer to public regulators. Over time she developed a practice that sits at the intersection of regulatory law, energy concerns, and transportation issues.
Morris holds active memberships in both the Pennsylvania State Bar and the Michigan State Bar. She is also affiliated with the Energy Association of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association. Those associations reflect the sectors that most often bring clients to her door: utilities, energy providers, and motor carriers. Colleagues and clients have relied on her familiarity with sector-specific rules and association-driven policy discussions.
Her approach to legal work is pragmatic. She breaks problems into their component parts and focuses on the procedural steps that will move a matter forward. She has been practicing for decades, and that tenure shows in how she plans hearings, drafts filings, and prepares clients for agency appearances. She does not court publicity; her work is largely rooted in the technical and procedural demands of regulatory practice.
Morris is licensed in Pennsylvania and Michigan and continues to represent clients on regulatory and compliance matters affecting utilities and transportation. Her current practice concentrates on advising clients on regulatory responses, permitting, licensing, and administrative proceedings in the energy and transportation sectors.
