Jorge represents clients in commercial litigation matters, and he routinely handles cases pending in federal courts, state courts, and arbitration tribunals. He has experience arguing before federal courts and has obtained numerous favorable rulings on behalf of the firm’s clients. Jorge regularly represents insurance carriers in matters involving insurance coverage and defense, and he has also represented product manufacturers, service providers, and other business entities in commercial, corporate, and business disputes. He has also represented individuals in matters before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Jorge practices in the firm’s Tort, Transportation, and Specialized Litigation and the Commercial Litigation practice groups.
Overview
Jorge represents clients in commercial litigation matters, and he routinely handles cases pending in federal courts, state courts, and arbitration tribunals. He has experience arguing before federal courts and has obtained numerous favorable rulings on behalf of the firm’s clients. Jorge regularly represents insurance carriers in matters involving insurance coverage and defense, and he has also represented product manufacturers, service providers, and other business entities in commercial, corporate, and business disputes. He has also represented individuals in matters before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Jorge practices in the firm’s Tort, Transportation, and Specialized Litigation and the Commercial Litigation practice groups.
Practice Areas
Experience
- Obtained order granting summary judgment in full on claims for breach of contract and bad faith against property and casualty insurance company (federal district court).
- Obtained order granting summary judgment in full on behalf of express transportation company (Alabama state court).
- Obtained order granting summary judgment in full on behalf of life insurance company (Mississippi state court).
- Obtained order granting motion to dismiss all claims against nation’s largest cooperative food wholesaler to independently owned supermarkets (federal district court).
- Obtained order granting motion to dismiss all claims against express transportation company (Alabama state court).
- Obtained voluntary dismissal of all product liability claims against American manufacturer of ventilation systems (Alabama state court).
- Obtained judgment in favor of American timberland company and one of the largest private owners of timberland in the world following bench trial (Alabama state court).
- Obtained grant of deferred action for minor under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, pro bono).
Bar Admissions
- Alabama, 2019
- U.S. District Courts
- Alabama: Northern, Middle, Southern
Education
- University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2019
- Order of the Coif
- Best Paper Award, Alabama Civil Practice and Procedure, Immigration and Migration Seminar, Elder Law Clinic
- Managing Editor, Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review
- Co-Chair, John A. Campbell Moot Court Board
- Robert F. Wagner National Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Team
- Research Assistant, Professor Shalini Ray
- Bench and Bar Legal Honor Society
- Treasurer, Law and Economics Society
- President and Co-Founder, Saint Thomas More Society
- Law School Ambassador
- Faculty Interview Committee
- Faculty’s Student Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Troy University, B.S., Political Science, summa cum laude, 2016
- Vice President of Legislative Affairs, Student Government Association
- Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award
- Externship, Honorable L. Scott Coogler, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, 2017
Associations
- American Bar Association
- Catholic Bar Association
- Birmingham Bar Association
- Federal Practice Section
- Young Lawyers Division
- Membership Committee
- Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Co-Author, “’The Government Said I Could’ As A Defense During COVID-19,” Law360, June 5, 2020.
- Author, “Detained Without Relief,” 10 ALA. C.R. & C.L. L. REV. 357, 2019.
Civic Involvement
- Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), Mission Partner
- Young Catholic Professionals of Birmingham, Vice President
- Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church, Pastoral Council, Vice Chairperson
- Diocese of Birmingham, Judicial Advocate