Class actions and financial services matters. I have handled over 60 class actions and over 250 real estate and mortgage matters. This work covers the waterfront of financial services and commercial litigation. For instance, my work for banks has involved many complex and lengthy matters including class actions (actions concerning posting order, Automated Clearing House transfers, Real Estate Settlement Procedures, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Truth in Lending Act, among others), and complex international disputes (participation agreements in Multi-District Litigation (MDL) and many related actions recovering monies for large scale merchant/international standardization organization (ISO) credit card fraud).

However, my banking work has also involves a wide variety of routine banking litigation, including  lender liability claims, Uniform Commercial Code disputes over checks and checking accounts (including defending banks over fraudulently deposited or drawn checks, and prosecuting claims to recover amounts from wrongdoers), disputes over wire transfers, identity theft, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, disputes over state tax payments, disputes over alleged forged loan and mortgage documents, disputes over failure to place/maintain/disburse insurance, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and closing attorney malfeasance.

Although I appear often for my clients in Alabama courts, I appear across the country in federal and state courts for my clients (and in arbitrations).  For example, in the last three years, I have appeared in federal court in Florida,  federal court in Pennsylvania, federal and state court in California, federal court in Missouri, federal court in Texas, federal court in Arkansas, federal court in Oklahoma, and federal court in New Jersey.

I have become a true believer in the value of scouting, having been involved in multiple ways for almost 20 years in Birmingham. I serve both in the management of our Boy Scout Council by serving as vice president for Donor Relations and Communications and on the executive board, but also through our local troop as an assistant scout master and ran Balch’s Law Explorer Post in the past. I have seen it change lives. I am also deeply involved in my church, Dawson Baptist, where I serve as a Deacon and as a teacher in the youth department. 

I was privileged to serve our country in the United States Air Force, as a staff officer in the Pentagon, spending my time programming, analyzing, and acquiring software and computer hardware (Captain, USAF 1984-88). I believe my time in the Air Force made me a more disciplined person, gave me insight to many of the electronically stored information, data and computer issues facing my clients, and gave me an appreciation for the management issues faced by businesses every day.