Messina

Brooke is a member of Butler Snow’s Tort, Transportation and Specialized Litigation group.

Tort, Transportation & Specialized Litigation

Brooke makes it a priority to get to know her clients and their objectives when undertaking any matter. She learned the importance of this during her eight-year career in business prior to going to law school, and she now applies it in her day-to-day work. Brooke maintains a diverse practice and focuses primarily on product liability, medical malpractice, environmental disputes, and commercial litigation.

Brooke graduated cum laude from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University and served as managing editor of the Cumberland Law Review. She received the Daniel Austin Brewer Professionalism Award and the Frances Marlin Mann Award for Leadership & Character. Brooke was also named the Scholar of Merit for several classes, including Advanced Evidence and Pre-Trial Practice and Procedure.

• Obtained summary judgment for automobile manufacturer on design defect claims.
• Obtained dismissal of defendant physician in failure-to-diagnose case.
• Led fact discovery efforts in alleged environmental contamination matter brought by several dozen plaintiffs seeking class certification.
• Obtained favorable resolutions for nationwide distributor on various product defect claims in more than a dozen states.
• Resolved multi-defendant malpractice litigation in favor of physician.
• Assisted in drafting respondent’s brief to Alabama Court of Civil Appeals which upheld trial court’s ruling in favor of retailer on premises liability claim. 

• Alabama, 2020
• U.S. District Courts
  • Alabama: Northern, Middle, Southern

• Cumberland School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2020
  • Daniel Austin Brewer Professionalism Award, 2020
  • Frances Marlin Mann Award for Leadership & Character, 2019
  • Spirit of Service Award, 2018
  • Merit Scholar, 2017-2020
  • Academic Excellence Award, 2017-2020
  • Scholar of Merit, Pre-Trial Practice and Procedure, 2019
  • Scholar of Merit, Municipal Courts, 2019
  • Scholar of Merit, Advanced Evidence, 2018
  • Scholar of Merit, Criminal Procedure I, 2019
  • Dean’s List (every semester)
  • Managing Editor, Cumberland Law Review
  • Finalist, Senior Moot Court Competition
  • Admission Ambassador
  • Trial Advocacy Board
  • Women in Law
  • Participant, Williams Trial Competition
  • Participant, Negotiation Competition Volunteer, Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program
• University of Alabama, B.A., 2009
  • Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society
  • Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society
  • Sigma Alpha Lambda Honor Society
  • President’s List and Dean’s List
  • Phi Mu Sorority
  • Pre-Law Student Association
  • Fundraiser, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals

• Birmingham Bar Association
• Alabama Bar Association
• Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
• Defense Research Institute (DRI)
• Judge James Edwin Horton Inn of Court
• American Bar Association

• Author, “Fourth Amendment’s Automobile Exception Does Not Permit a Warrantless Police Officer to Search a Vehicle Located Inside a Home’s Curtilage,” Cumberland Law Review (2019)
• Author, “Standard Articulated for ‘Settled Child’ within the Meaning of the Hague Convention and the International Child Abduction Remedies Act of 1988,” Cumberland Law Review (2019)