Select Matters
- Energy: Represented energy companies in disputes involving generation, transmission, and distribution.
- Financial Services: Represented banks in lender liability and intercreditor disputes.
- Insurance: Represented policyholders and carriers in insurance coverage challenges and disputes involving first party property coverages, general liability coverages, director and officer coverages, error and omission coverages, and environmental coverages.
- General: Represented companies and professionals in crisis management and risk assessment following accidents or damaging events.
- Technology: Represented software companies in litigation and regulatory challenges.
- Risk Management: Represented companies in ongoing contract review and risk assessment involving risk allocation through indemnity, liability, and insurance agreements.
- Environmental: Represented national company in litigation involving alleged underground soil and water contamination.
- Energy: Represented nuclear power generation company in litigation involving spent nuclear fuel.
- Environmental: Represented businesses and individuals in recoveries for oil spill claims arising from the 2010 catastrophe spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Manufacturing & Distribution: Represented companies in loss recovery and in litigation.
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Credentials
- Tulane University Law School, J.D., 1980, cum laude; Articles Editor, Tulane Law Review
- Birmingham-Southern College, B.A., 1977
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2003
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 2016
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama, 1984
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama, 1993
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama, 1998
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1984
- U.S. District Court, Connecticut, 2003
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana, 1980
- Alabama, 1983
- Birmingham Bar Association, Past President
- American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow
- Birmingham Bar Foundation, Fellow
- American Arbitration Association, Certified Mediator
- Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel
- Chambers USA, Litigation: General Commercial
- Benchmark Litigation, Local Star
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, 2005 - present
- Lawyer of the Year, Insurance Law, 2021
- Mid-South Super Lawyers, 2008 - present
- Birmingham Business Journal, Best of the Bar, 2019
- United Way of Central Alabama, Board of Directors and Executive Committee
- Birmingham Education Foundation, Board of Directors and Executive Committee
- Tocqueville Cabinet
- Leadership Alabama, Class of 2009
- Leadership Birmingham, Class of 2009
- Members Council
- Rotary Club of Birmingham
- Newcomen Society