Position: Member

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Admitted: 1989, Alabama and U.S. District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Alabama; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 1994, Federal Court Panel of Neutrals; 1995, U.S. Supreme Court

Law School: Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., magna cum laude, 1988; University of Melbourne Law School, LL.M., 1992

College: Samford University, B.S., magna cum laude, 1985

Birth Date and Place: Birmingham, Alabama, June 23, 1963

Practice Areas: Pharmaceutical Litigation; Personal Injury Litigation; Toxic Tort; Aviation Litigation; Environmental Law; Product Liability

Additional Information: Alabama State Bar; American Bar Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Alabama Trial Lawyers Association. Biography: Phi Kappa Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa. Member, Curia Honoris. Recipient, Rotary Foundation Scholarship for International Understanding. Casenote Editor, Cumberland Law Review, 1987-1988. Author: "The Constitutionality of Medical Malpractice Damage Limitation Statutes," 17 Cumb. L. Rev. 569 (1987); "The Summary Jury Trial: Judicial Alternative Dispute Resolution," 2 Australian Dispute Resolution Journal 51 (1991); "The Role of Federal Court Judges in the Settlement of Disputes," 13 Tasmania L. Rev. 217 (1994); "The Role of Eleventh Circuit District Court Judges in the Settlement of Disputes," 176 F.R.D. 601 (1998); "The Montreal Convention: Justice for Victims International Air Disasters," Alabama Trial Lawyers Journal, p. 48 (2000). Law Clerk to Honorable E.B. Haltom, Jr., United States District Judge, Northern District of Alabama, 1988-1989. Staff Attorney, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1991-1993. Adjunct Professor, Research, Writing, and Appellate Advocacy, Emory University School of Law, 1992-1993. Professor, Constitutional Law, Birmingham School of Law, 1993—.

Firm Members: Ernest Cory

Firm Members: Annesley DeGaris

Firm Members: Charles Crowder

Firm Members: Douglas Dellaccio, Jr.