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Visibility Rankings  | | #708 out of 3,675 lawyers in Birmingham, Alabama | | #141,885 out of 890,243 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Class Actions; Personal Injury Litigation; Products Liability Litigation; Wrongful Death Litigation; Appellate Practice in State and Federal Courts; Constitutional Litigation; Complex Litigation | | | Peer Review Rating | AV
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What's this? | | | Education | University of Alabama, J.D., 1969 | | | Admitted | 1969, Alabama; 1972, U.S. Supreme Court; 1997, Texas; 2007, New York | |
| Memberships | Tuscaloosa County (Member, Executive Committee 1979; President, 1980-1981), New York State and American Bar Associations; Alabama State Bar (Member, 1973— and Chairman, 1979—, Committee on Prepaid Legal Services; Chairman, Task Force on Illiteracy, 1989; Member, IOLTA Task Force; Member, Committee on Local Bar Activities; Member, Supreme Court Task Force on Judicial Building; Member, Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Criminal Procedure; Member, Labor Law Section; Executive Committee, Young Lawyers Section, 1977; Task Force on Minority Participation, 1995-1996, Chairman, 1996-1997); State Bar of Texas; Alabama Trial Lawyers Association (Member: Board of Governors, 1976, Executive Committee, 1984); American Association for Justice. | | | Born | Jefferson County, Alabama, July 3, 1945 | | | Biography | Omicron Delta Kappa. Member: Jasons; Bench and Bar. Author: "Enforcing the Right to Treatment," 10 American Criminal Law Review 587, 1972; "Judicial Implementation and Wyatt v. Stickney," 32 Al. L. Rev. 299, 1981. Lecturer in Law, University of Alabama Law School, 1983-1987. Member, 1998-2003 and Chairman, 2003, Alabama Ethics Commission. Lawyer Member, 11th Circuit Judicial Conference, 1984-1986, 1991, 1995, 2005. Member, Lawyers Advisory Committee, 11th Circuit Judicial Conference, 1986-1988. Member, Lawyer's Advisory Committee, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, 1989—. Member, Advisory Group to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, 1990. Member of Vestry, Christ Episcopal Church, 1984-1987. Senior Warden, 1987, Junior Warden, Vestry, Grace Episcopal Church, 2003. Member, State Democratic Executive Committee, 1986-1996. Executive Board of the State Democratic Executive Committee, 1986. Member, Board of Trustees: Birmingham Museum of Art, 2001—; President Collectors Circle, 2004. Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1995. | | | Reported Cases | Avis Rent-a-Car Systems v. Heilman, 976 So. 2d 1111 (Ala. 2003); Peters v. Amoco, 57 F.Supp. 2d 1268 (M.D. Ala. 1999); Clark v. Container Corporation of America, Al. Sup. Ct. 589 So. 2d 184 (Ala. 1992); Henderson v. Graddick, 641 F.Supp. 1192 (Three Judge court), appeal dismissed, 107 S. Ct. 681 (1986); Ex Parte Graddick, 495 So.2d 1367 (Ala. 1986); Ex Parte Baxley, 497 So.2d 30 (Ala. 1986); Dodson v. Atrax, 437 So.2d 1294 (Ala. Civ. App. 1983); DeStafney v. University of Alabama, 413 So.2d 391 (Ala. 1982); City of Tuscaloosa v. Board of Trustees, Fire and Police, 677 So.2d 198 (Ala. 1996); Henderson v. Alabama Power Co., 627 So.2d 878 (Ala. 1993); Wyatt v. Stickney, 344 F.Supp. 373, 387 (M.D.Ala. 1972). | | | ISLN | 907759179 | |
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