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Visibility Rankings  | | #945 out of 3,668 lawyers in Birmingham, Alabama | | #157,182 out of 889,408 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Pharmaceutical Litigation; Personal Injury Litigation; Toxic Tort; Aviation Litigation; Environmental Law; Product Liability | | | Peer Review Rating | AV
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What's this? | | | Education | Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., magna cum laude, 1988; University of Melbourne Law School, LL.M., 1992, Samford University, B.S., magna cum laude, 1985 | | | Admitted | 1989, Alabama and U.S. District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Alabama; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 1994, Federal Court Panel of Neutrals; 1995, U.S. Supreme Court; 2005, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Fourth and Fifth Circuits; 2007, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York | |
| Memberships | Alabama State Bar; American Bar Association; The American Association of Justice; Alabama Trial Lawyers Association. | | | Born | Birmingham, Alabama, June 23, 1963 | | | Biography | Phi Kappa Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa. Member, Curia Honoris. Recipient, Rotary Foundation Scholarship for International Understanding. Case note Editor, Cumberland Law Review, 1987-1988. Author: "The Constitutionality of Medical Malpractice Damage Limitation Statutes," 17 Cumb. L. Rev. 569 (1987); "The Summary Jury Trial: Judicial Alternative Dispute Resolution," 2 Australian Dispute Resolution Journal 51 (1991); "The Role of Federal Court Judges in the Settlement of Disputes," 13 Tasmania L. Rev. 217 (1994); "The Role of Eleventh Circuit District Court Judges in the Settlement of Disputes," 176 F.R.D. 601 (1998); "The Montreal Convention: Justice for Victims International Air Disasters," The Journal of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, p. 48 (2000); "Sharks in the Water: The Problem of Car Title Loans," The Journal of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association 58 (2007). Adjunct Professor, University of Alabama, Birmingham. Law Clerk to Honorable E.B. Haltom, Jr., United States District Judge, Northern District of Alabama, 1988-1989. Staff Attorney, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1991-1993. Adjunct Professor, Research, Writing, and Appellate Advocacy, Emory University School of Law, 1992-1993. Professor, Constitutional Law, Birmingham School of Law, 1993—. | | | ISLN | 907945916 | |
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