Experience
- Represent and defend insurance companies in complex litigation/class actions, extracontractual litigation, coverage and special investigations.
- Obtained summary judgment for an insurer client in a breach of contract and bad faith case, involving alleged arson and fraud by the insured, affirmed in full by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals following oral argument.
Distinctions
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Commercial Litigation, 2021-2025
- Super Lawyers®
- Mid-South Rising Stars, General Litigation, 2014-2022
- Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum – Class 2014
- Future Leadership Forum, Birmingham Bar Association, Class of 2010
- Leadership Council, University of Alabama, Class of 2010
- Birmingham Business Journal
- Best of the Bar, 2020
- Rising Star of Law, 2019
Bar Admissions
- Alabama, 2007
- U.S. District Courts
- Alabama: Northern, Middle, Southern
- U.S. Court of Appeals
Education
- Cumberland School of Law, J.D., 2007
- Assistant Justice, Moot Court Board
- University of Georgia, B.A., Marketing, 2004
- Clerkship, Honorable Judge Michael G. Graffeo, Circuit Judge, 10th Judicial Circuit, Alabama, June 2007-September 2008
Associations
- Alabama State Bar Association
- Leadership Forum's Class of 2014
- Birmingham Bar Association
- Young Lawyers Division
- President, 2012-2013
- President Elect, 2011-2012
- Secretary/Treasurer, 2010-2011
- Vice President of Social, 2009-2010
- Executive Board Member, 2008-2009
- Future Leaders Forum Committee
- Birmingham Bar Foundation
- Birmingham Volunteer Lawyer’s Program
- American Bar Association
- International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Substantive Law Committee
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Speaker, “Associate to Partner: Marketing Yourself,” Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, Young Lawyers Section CLE, July 22, 2020.
Civic Involvement
- Vestavia Hills City Schools Foundation, Board of Directors
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