Recognized to Alabama Chapter for Mediation & ArbitrationOther ADR Services: ADR Training/CME, Discovery Referee, Early Neutral Evaluation, Insurance Umpire, Med-Arb, Special Master
Biographical
General mediation (other than domestic relations) for approximately twenty five years involving over two thousand five hundred cases. Completed a 20-hour basic mediation training course. Participates as speaker or attendee at annual ADR continuing legal education events. Member of the Panel of Neutrals for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama and is recognized by the Alabama Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution. Regularly appointed by circuit court judges in Mobile, Baldwin, Clarke, Choctaw and Washington Counties in Alabama, federal judges in the Southern District of Alabama and Alabama appellate courts for court ordered mediations. Selected by lawyers throughout Alabama for voluntary mediations. Successfully conducted mediations in every aspect of civil litigation. Arbitrator for over 18 years in all areas of civil practice. One of two individuals from Alabama selected by Judge Barbier to serve on the BP Appeals Panel.
Case Experience
Admiralty
Appellate
Automotive
Aviation
Business Dissolution
Class Actions
Commercial/Business
Condominiums
Construction
Contract Disputes
EEOC
Employment
Environmental
Health Care
Insurance
Legal Malpractice
Medical Devices
Medical Malpractice
Nursing Homes
Partnerships
Personal Injury
Pharmaceuticals
Premises Liability
Product Liability
Professional Liability
Professional Malpractice
Professional Negligence
Railroad & Trucking
Torts
Transportation
Workers' Compensation
Wrongful Death
Education
Graduated University of Alabama, 1969;
University of Alabama Law School, 1971;
Order of the Coif; Editorial Board,;
University of Alabama Law Review;
Former Bar Examiner for Alabama State Bar;
Currently member of the Board of University of Alabama Law School Foundation.
Memberships & Affiliations
Licensed to practice before the Alabama Supreme Court;
United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Alabama;
U. S. Courts of Appeal, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits.
