Christian & Small LLP 505 North Twentieth Street, Suite 1800, Birmingham, AL 35203
Phone:
(866)5081891 (Phone)
Specialties:
Corporate Defense Insurance Defense Complex and Multi-District Litigation Labor and Employment Insurance Fraud Products Liability Civil Litigation
Memberships:
Birmingham (Grievance Committee, Chairman, 2001-2003 Committee for Legal Reform Co-Chair, Civil Courts Procedure Committee) and American Bar Associations Alabama State Bar State Bar of Texas.
ISLN:
907806392
Admitted:
1990, Texas and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas 1992, Alabama and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit U.S. District Court, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama
University:
Samford University, B.S., 1987
Law School:
Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., 1990
Biography:
Member, Cumberland Law Review. Member, ABA National Trial Advocacy Team, 1989-1990. Winner, Herbert W. Peterson Senior Trial Advocacy Competition, 1989. Cordell Hull Teaching Fellow. Judicial Law Cler...
Christian & Small since Jul 2000
Partner
Rives & Peterson - Birmingham, Alabama Area Sep 1993 - Jul 2000
Partner
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama Jul 1991 - Jul 1993
Judicial Law Clerk
Arter & Hadden Sep 1990 - Jul 1991
Associate
Education:
Samford University, Cumberland School of Law 1987 - 1990
J.D.
Samford University 1983 - 1987
B.S., Public Administration
Awards:
Best Lawyers in America Selected for inclusion from 2009 - 2014 in the areas of Commercial Litigation; Litigation - Securities; Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions; Product Liability Litigation - Defendants; Litigation - Labor & Employment, and Insurance Law. Alabama Super Lawyers Selected by my peers as one of the Top 25 Women Lawyers in Alabama in 2010, 2011 and 2013
Selected for inclusion in Alabama Super Lawyers in the fields of Business Litigation, Insurance, and Product Liability Benchmark Litigation / Benchmark Appellate Recognized in Benchmark Appellate as an Eleventh Circuit Litigation Star - 2012, 2013
Recognized as a Litigation Rising Star - 2009 to 2011 Member of the 2012 Class of Leadership Birmingham Benchmark's Top 250 Women in Litigation Benchmark Litigation 2012 and 2013. The objective of Top 250 is to identify the leading female practitioners in each state. The results are the culmination of a six-month research period that includes extensive interviews with litigators and their clients, examination of case work handled by the firms and asking sources to offer their professional opinions on litigators practicing within their state or national practice areas.
B.C. Charles Elementary School Newport News VA 1975-1976, Sanford Elementary School Newport News VA 1976-1981, Carver Middle School Newport News VA 1981-1984