Select Matters
- ADA Prison Class Action: Developed and implemented strategy for defeating class certification in putative class action for alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act that contributed to favorable resolution. (2016, Dunn v. Dunn, No. 14-601, M.D. Ala.)
- Real Estate Contract Appeal: Represented electric utility in appeal involving the alleged failure to convey an undeveloped subdivision worth approximately $2 million that resulted in affirmance without opinion. (2015, Caldwell v. Alabama Power Company, No. 1141005, Ala. Sup. Ct.)
- LLC Partnership Dispute: Developed and implemented strategy for defending business owner in dispute alleging violations of LLC operating agreement and tortious interference with contractual relations that resulted in favorable result for client. (2015)
- Constitutionality of local law: Represented local government in constitutional challenge to local law permitting county-wide sales tax that resulted in dismissal of lawsuit. (2015)
- HVAC Class Action: Representation in putative nationwide RICO and consumer fraud class action stemming from sale of allegedly defective HVAC equipment. (2015)
- TILA Class Action: Represented financial institution in obtaining dismissal and affirmance on appeal of putative class action alleging failure to provide certain disclosures required by the Truth-in-Lending Act. (2014)
- Worker's Compensation Mandamus Petition: Developed and implemented strategy for mandamus petition to Alabama Court of Civil Appeals that resulted in favorable resolution for client. (2014)
- Fuel Fee Class Action: Represented client in putative class action alleging breach of standard form contract that resulted in favorable resolution for client. (2014)
- Court Appointed Criminal Appeal: Represented federal inmate in appeal and subsequent habeas corpus petition to challenge the length of the inmate's sentence that resulted in U.S. Attorney's Office conceding that the inmate should be resentenced.
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Credentials
- The University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 2011, summa cum laude; Order of the Coif; M. Leigh Harrison Award; Hugo L. Black Scholar
- The University of Alabama, M.A., History, 2008, summa cum laude
- Mississippi State University, B.A., History, Philosophy & Religion, 2006
- Mississippi Supreme Court, 2011
- Supreme Court of Alabama, 2012
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 2014
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama, 2013
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama, 2015
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama, 2015
- Alabama, 2012
- Mississippi, 2011
- Birmingham Bar Association
- Mid-South Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2017 - present
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Ones to Watch
- Rotaract Club of Birmingham
- Birmingham Bar Association
- Trinity United Methodist Church
- Eagle Scout Boards of Review, Vulcan District -- Greater Alabama Council
- MS Leadership Class of Birmingham, 2015
- Heart Walk Birmingham, 2016
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, Honorable Emmett Ripley Cox
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama, Honorable Virginia Emerson Hopkins