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Morris J. Coff, 68, a founding member of the law firm of Holleb & Coff, died Thursday in Highland Park Hospital. Mr. Coff was a lawyer in Chicago for 42 years, practicing corporate, business and health law. Mr. Coff, a resident of Highland Park, was a 1950 cum laude graduate of Harvard University Law School and was an editor of its law review. He came to the Chicago area in 1950 on a Bigelow Teaching Fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School. During World War II, he was in the infantry and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He graduated in 1947 from the University of Denver. Survivors include his wife, Lois; three sons, Laurence, David and Russell; three daughters, Jill Rubenstein, Pamela Pichietti and Amy Foossaner; and seven grandchildren. Services will be at 1:45 p.m. Sunday in B’nai Torah Temple, 2789 Oak St., Highland Park.