In the early 1970s, Alan E. Morrill created an organization that presented seminars to teach lawyers about trial advocacy. After working in private practice for 28 years, Morrill became a Cook County associate judge in 1979. He retired from the bench in 1986. “As a professional, he was a trailblazer in creating the format for trial advocacy education,” said Morrill’s son, Stephen Scott Morrill, president of Morrill & Associates P.C. “As a man and a judge, he was a person of unfailing …