| Biography | John practices in the firm's litigation and health care sections, with an emphasis on product liability and personal injury, commercial, and administrative law litigation. He handles personal injury and wrongful death cases for products manufacturers, and has experience defending heavy truck (tractor-trailer) crashworthiness, design defect, failure to warn, fleet warranty, and other claims. Also in the products area, John has advised and guided clients through nationwide product recalls. John's general litigation experience has included representation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ("NCAA") in a series of unique and high profile defamation and invasion of privacy suits arising out of an NCAA investigation of the University of Alabama football program in 2001. In 1996, John also began working with the firm's health care section handling Certificate of Need litigation. This practice consists of presenting and opposing applications for Certificate of Need ("CON") before Alabama's State Health Planning and Development Agency, including trials of contested cases pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act before administrative law judges of the agency, presenting and opposing cases before the Alabama Certificate of Need Review Board, and handling appeals of agency decisions in state circuit and appellate courts. Since 1996, John has been involved in numerous CON matters, and has tried over fifteen CON trials to conclusion, including cases involving open heart surgery services, cardiac catheterization services, ambulatory surgery services, hospital surgical services, free standing radiation therapy and cancer treatment centers, mobile lithotripsy services, magnetic resonance imaging, and general hospital expansion and construction projects. John is listed in The Best Lawyers in America under the categories of Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation and Product Liability Litigation. In addition, John has been selected for inclusion in Alabama Super Lawyers from 2008 to 2011. He is a member of the Defense Research Institute and the Alabama Defense Lawyers' Association. He is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Alabama, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. While in law school John was a member of the Washington and Lee Law Review. Memberships & Bar Associations American Bar Association Birmingham Bar Association Alabama State Bar Association |