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Morris Seligman Dees Jr. (born December 16, 1936) is an American attorney who is the co-founder and chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and a former market engineer for book publishing.^[2] Along with his law partner, Joseph J. Levin Jr., Dees founded the SPLC in 1971.^[3] Dees and his colleagues at the Southern Poverty Law Center have been “credited with devising innovative ways to cripple hate groups” such as the Ku Klux Klan.