Key Facts
- Best Personal Injury Law: Gold, 2024 and 2025 (second consecutive year)
- Best Law Firm: Gold, 2025 (Silver in 2024)
- Decided by: public vote of Caddo Parish, Bossier Parish, and Northwest Louisiana residents
- Trial record: more than $1 billion in resolved settlements, verdicts, and judgments in catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death matters
- Headquarters: 509 Milam Street, Shreveport, Louisiana, across from the Caddo Parish Courthouse
- Offices: Shreveport, Covington, Minden, Ruston, Lake Charles
Morris & Dewett Injury Lawyers won Gold for Best Personal Injury Law in the Shreveport-Bossier Choice Awards in 2024 and 2025 and won Gold for Best Law Firm in 2025 after earning Silver in that category in 2024. The awards are decided by public vote. This post unpacks what that result actually means, how the program works, and the verifiable record sitting behind it.
The Shreveport-Bossier Choice Awards Are Decided by Public Vote
The Shreveport-Bossier Choice Awards are a public-vote recognition program presented annually by The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate, a Georges Media publication covering Northwest Louisiana. Winners are determined entirely by ballots cast by residents of Caddo Parish, Bossier Parish, and the surrounding communities. There is no editorial panel, no jury, and no submission fee.
The 2025 program drew more than 51,000 votes across more than 4,400 candidate businesses in 14 categories and 234 subcategories. Gold, Silver, and Bronze designations are awarded in each subcategory based on vote totals. Vote tabulation is independent of program sponsorship; Morris & Dewett was the presenting sponsor of the 2025 awards program, a publishing arrangement separate from the public-vote tabulation that determines winners. The result is a community ranking based on the ballots cast.
Morris & Dewett Won Gold in Two Categories in the 2025 Shreveport-Bossier Choice Awards
Morris & Dewett Injury Lawyers won Gold for Best Personal Injury Law in the Shreveport-Bossier Choice Awards in 2024 and 2025, two consecutive years, and also won Gold for Best Law Firm in 2025 after earning Silver in that category in 2024. The two categories produce different pools of voters, and the two Gold wins in a single cycle signal a broad community endorsement rather than a single-subcategory result.
- Best Personal Injury Law: Gold (2024), Gold (2025)
- Best Law Firm: Silver (2024), Gold (2025)
Best Personal Injury Law: second consecutive Gold in 2024 and 2025
Repeating in a public-vote program is harder than winning once. A first-time win can ride a single moment of attention. A second consecutive Gold has to come from people who have been paying attention long enough to vote twice.
Best Law Firm: Silver in 2024, Gold in 2025
The Best Law Firm category pits every firm in the Shreveport-Bossier region against every other firm, regardless of practice area. After earning Silver in that broader category in 2024, Morris & Dewett took Gold in 2025, meaning voters ranked the firm ahead of every other Shreveport-Bossier law firm in the field.
For a firm that does only one thing, plaintiff trial work in serious injury and wrongful death cases, that crossover is unusual. Diversified general-practice firms typically win broad law-firm categories. The 2025 result reads as a community endorsement of how the firm has done that one thing for almost 25 years.
"Two years running in personal injury, and now the top law firm in our community. Voted by the people we serve. For us, that is the ranking that counts," said Trey Morris of Morris & Dewett Injury Lawyers.
Both Morris & Dewett Partners Were Born and Raised in Northwest Louisiana
Trey Morris and Justin C. Dewett, the partners of Morris & Dewett, were both born and raised in Northwest Louisiana and practice in the same parishes where they grew up. Trey Morris is a Shreveport native and opened the firm's first office there in 2001. Justin C. Dewett grew up in the region as well and joined the practice after graduating from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University.
The firm's headquarters at 509 Milam Street sits directly across from the Caddo Parish Courthouse. Neither partner built a practice somewhere else and exported it to Shreveport. The residents who voted Morris & Dewett Gold in 2024 and 2025 are voting on people who live in their parishes, send their kids to local schools, and try cases in the courthouses they drive past.
Morris & Dewett's Trial Record Crosses $1 Billion in Settlements, Verdicts, and Judgments
Morris & Dewett's plaintiff trial record in Louisiana and Texas crosses more than $1 billion in settlements, verdicts, and judgments for clients in catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death matters. The firm audited its internal case records and aggregated every settlement, verdict, and judgment to compile the figure. The number describes the kind of cases the firm takes: commercial-vehicle, oilfield, industrial, and wrongful-death matters where the harm is severe and the liability investigation is substantial.
"Settlements and verdicts only get that high because someone suffered massive, life-altering injury and someone else was grossly negligent. Many of these cases last years, and it is hard to sit and wait knowing the rest of your life turns for better or worse on legal argument. It is a responsibility, and every lawyer in our firm understands the weight of the moment on them and on our clients." — Trey Morris, Morris & Dewett
Reader's choice awards reflect community sentiment. The independently published case record below grounds that sentiment in actual outcomes.
Trey Morris: $409,122,013 verdict in Grantham v. Stuart Petroleum listed by TopVerdict in three national categories for 2023
Trey Morris of Morris & Dewett appeared on three TopVerdict.com national lists in 2023 for a single case. The case is the $409,122,013 verdict in Grantham v. Stuart Petroleum, et al.
The three national TopVerdict lists are Top 20 Verdicts in the United States, Top 10 Motor Vehicle Accident Verdicts in the United States, and Top 10 Wrongful Death Verdicts in the United States. TopVerdict materials provided to the firm also identify the Grantham verdict as the No. 1 Personal Injury Verdict and the No. 1 All Practice Areas Verdict in Louisiana in 2023.
"The Grantham case was a senseless tragedy that could have been avoided if the company had done the correct thing and followed DOT regulations. After the jury saw the evidence, I believe the verdict sent a message to others not following the law." — Justin C. Dewett, Morris & Dewett
Justin C. Dewett: $17,250,000 settlement and multiple No. 1 TopVerdict rankings for 2024
Justin C. Dewett of Morris & Dewett Injury Lawyers was listed by TopVerdict.com on the Top 10 Motor Vehicle Accident Settlements in Texas for 2024 for a $17,250,000 settlement. His 2024 record also includes No. 1 TopVerdict rankings for Personal Injury Settlement in Louisiana, Motor Vehicle Accident Settlement in Louisiana, and several No. 1 listings in Texas across truck v. truck, fire injury, permanent disability, and amputation categories.
What the three signals add up to
Each of the three published sources above measures a different dimension of the firm, and each is administered independently of the others. The Choice Awards measure how the community votes, decided by Caddo and Bossier Parish residents through ballots cast at shreveportbossierchoice.com. TopVerdict.com measures what the firm obtained for its clients, recorded against TopVerdict's published verdict and settlement methodology. Google reviews measure what those clients said about the experience after the case closed. The three signals come from three separate populations: voters, third-party verdict reporters, and former clients.
A firm can manufacture one of those signals through marketing investment. A firm cannot manufacture all three. Morris & Dewett ranks at the top of all three: Gold in two Choice Awards categories in 2025, more than $1 billion in published case results across catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death matters, and a 5.0 average rating across more than 2,400 five-star Google reviews.
Referrals From Other Lawyers Drive Most of Morris & Dewett's Caseload
More than half of Morris & Dewett's new cases come from referrals by other lawyers. The referring attorneys send matters from inside their own networks of clients, friends, and family. A subset of those referrals comes from defense counsel. The pattern is not captured in any public-vote program.
Local attorneys are not voting in the Shreveport-Bossier Choice Awards as part of an organized campaign. They send cases to the firm one matter at a time, year after year, after they have seen the work up close.
Morris & Dewett Operates Five Louisiana Offices
Morris & Dewett operates five Louisiana offices in Shreveport, Covington, Minden, Ruston, and Lake Charles, and serves clients across Louisiana, Texas, and the Gulf South. Each office anchors a different regional corridor.
Shreveport
509 Milam Street, across from the Caddo Parish Courthouse.
Covington
North Shore, St. Tammany Parish, and the I-12 and Causeway corridors.
Minden
Webster Parish and the I-20 corridor east of Shreveport.
Ruston
Lincoln Parish and the central I-20 commercial trucking corridor.
Lake Charles
Calcasieu Parish, the I-10 corridor, and Southwest Louisiana.
The footprint is a deliberate choice. Catastrophic injuries do not happen in one zip code, and families recovering from a wrongful death or a serious industrial accident often cannot drive an hour each way for a meeting. Maintaining offices closer to where clients live, where the crashes happened, and where the courts that try these cases sit makes the work accessible to the people who actually need it. The cases come from the I-20, I-49, I-10, and I-12 corridors; the offices follow the cases.
Morris & Dewett's Practice Focuses on Serious Injury and Wrongful Death
Morris & Dewett handles commercial vehicle collisions, industrial and workplace accidents, oilfield and energy sector injuries, premises liability, wrongful death, and catastrophic personal injury cases across Louisiana, Texas, and the Gulf South. Not every injury case is a Morris & Dewett case; the practice focuses on:
- Commercial vehicle collisions. 18-wheelers, logging trucks, oilfield service vehicles, and company pickup trucks operated by commercial drivers.
- Industrial and workplace accidents. Refinery and plant explosions, unguarded machinery, falls from height, and crush injuries.
- Oilfield and energy sector injuries. Wireline, workover rig, well control, and derrick incidents, including cases involving safety-protocol violations.
- Premises liability. Catastrophic injuries on commercial properties where the owner or operator failed to address a known hazard.
- Wrongful death. Including cases that require an estate-administration component.
- Catastrophic personal injury. Cases involving traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputation, or severe burns.
The firm tries these cases when they need to be tried and settles them on terms clients can accept when settlement is the right outcome. Trey Morris and Justin C. Dewett personally lead the firm's significant cases.
The Choice Awards Gold Designation Reflects Voter Sentiment Alone
A reader's choice award reflects voter sentiment, not a professional credential, and does not predict the outcome of any future case. Two specific limits apply.
The Choice Awards reflect voter sentiment, not a credential
The Shreveport-Bossier Choice Awards are a community recognition program based on public voting. They are not administered by the Louisiana State Bar Association, the National Board of Trial Advocacy, or any other professional body. A Gold designation reflects voter sentiment, not a credential.
Past results do not guarantee future outcomes
Aggregate settlement and verdict figures, the Grantham verdict, the TopVerdict listings, and every individual case result described above are tied to specific facts and legal circumstances. Each case is decided on its own evidence. A prior recovery does not predict a recovery in any future matter.
Northwest Louisiana Voters Selected Morris & Dewett by Direct Ballot in 2024 and 2025
The 2024 and 2025 Shreveport-Bossier Choice Awards results were awarded to Morris & Dewett by direct vote of Northwest Louisiana residents. The result is a community recognition that money cannot purchase and a marketing campaign cannot fake. Voters chose Morris & Dewett based on what they have heard from neighbors, what they have seen in their own communities, and in many cases what they have lived through with the firm directly.
Two consecutive Gold years in personal injury and a Best Law Firm Gold across all practice areas track the firm's expanding catastrophic-injury and commercial-vehicle caseload across Northwest Louisiana, the I-20 corridor, and the Gulf South. The 2025 result reflects how the work has been received in the communities where the cases are tried.
"The 2024 and 2025 Choice Awards results came from the people we serve, the neighbors who voted in two separate cycles. Two Gold years in personal injury and a Best Law Firm Gold across all practice areas is a community endorsement of the trial work, the case selection, and the offices we have built across Louisiana." — Justin C. Dewett, Morris & Dewett
Frequently Asked Questions
Are the Shreveport-Bossier Choice Awards decided by public vote?
Yes. The Shreveport-Bossier Choice Awards are a public-vote recognition program presented annually by The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate. Winners are determined entirely by ballots cast by residents of Caddo Parish, Bossier Parish, and the surrounding Northwest Louisiana communities. There is no editorial panel, no jury, and no submission fee.
Has Morris & Dewett won Best Personal Injury Law more than once?
Yes. Morris & Dewett won Gold for Best Personal Injury Law in the Shreveport-Bossier Choice Awards in both 2024 and 2025, two consecutive years. The firm also won Gold for Best Law Firm in 2025 after earning Silver in that broader category in 2024.
Where is Morris & Dewett's main office?
Morris & Dewett is headquartered at 509 Milam Street in Shreveport, Louisiana, across from the Caddo Parish Courthouse. The firm operates five Louisiana offices in Shreveport, Covington, Minden, Ruston, and Lake Charles.
Who are the partners at Morris & Dewett?
Morris & Dewett is led by founding and managing partner Trey Morris and named partner Justin C. Dewett. Trey Morris opened the firm's first Shreveport office in 2001. Both partners were born and raised in Northwest Louisiana.
What types of cases does Morris & Dewett handle?
Morris & Dewett handles commercial vehicle collisions, industrial and workplace accidents, oilfield and energy sector injuries, premises liability, wrongful death, and catastrophic personal injury cases. The firm represents clients across Louisiana, Texas, and the Gulf South. The practice focuses on serious-injury and wrongful-death matters where the harm is severe and the liability investigation is substantial.
What was the Grantham v. Stuart Petroleum verdict?
Trey Morris of Morris & Dewett obtained a $409,122,013 verdict in Grantham v. Stuart Petroleum, et al. in 2023. The verdict was listed by TopVerdict.com on three national 2023 lists: Top 20 Verdicts in the United States, Top 10 Motor Vehicle Accident Verdicts in the United States, and Top 10 Wrongful Death Verdicts in the United States. TopVerdict materials also identify the verdict as the No. 1 Personal Injury Verdict and the No. 1 All Practice Areas Verdict in Louisiana for 2023.