Attorneys in the News

Hooks Wilkinson

Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial is pleased to welcome partner Jonathan Hooks and associate Ethan Wilkinson to the firm’s growing Birmingham office.

Johnson McKitt

Claire Johnson and Shalyn McKitt have recently joined Balch & Bingham’s Birmingham office. Ms. Johnson joins as a member of the Environmental & Natural Resources Practice, and Ms. McKitt joins as a member of the Litigation Practice, with a focus on health care litigation.

Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart LLP announces that

Bret Thompson

has joined the firm as a lateral hire, practicing in the areas of product liability, transporThompson tation and insurance coverage and defense.

Southern University Law Center student Crystal Armstrong has become the first recipient of Lightfoot, Franklin & White’s new annual Diversity Scholarship. The firm awarded Ms. Armstrong a $10,000 scholarship and a summer clerkship in the Birmingham office.

Armstrong

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP announces that Partner Ryan P. Robichaux has been elected as an Alabama State Bar commissioner for the 10th Judicial Circuit. Mr. Robichaux began his three-year term July 1.

Robichaux

Dominick Feld Hyde proudly announces that

Barry A. Ragsdale

has joined the firm as a shareholder in the Litigation group.

Ragsdale

Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C., announces that Beth Graham has rejoined the firm as an associate after her judicial clerkship with the Honorable Corey L. Maze, U.S. District Court.

Walter F. McArdle, with Spain & Gillon LLC, was named as the co-chair of the Commercial Fraud Committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute for

McArdle a two-year term.

Balch & Bingham is honored to announce that David Boyd, a partner in both the firm’s Birmingham and Mont- Boyd gomery offices, was elected the sixth president of the Alabama Law Institute.

Smith Doty

Carol Ann Smith and Christopher Doty announce the formation of Smith & Doty, P.C., where they will specialize in complex business, employment, construction and civil litigation. The firm has moved to a new office located at 2700 U.S. 280, Suite 203W, Birmingham, AL 35223.

Jenna M. Bed-

sole was recently elected to Managing Shareholder of Baker Donelson’s Birmingham Office. Ms. Bedsole will maintain her legal practice, Bedsole which is focused on representing employers in a broad range of employment matters.

Laura Winston, a Corporate Real Estate attorney at Alabama Power Company, recently received her professional

certification from the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program at Cornell University. She is also the founder of Law Wellness, a wellness coaching community for lawyers.

Hollis, Wright & Clay, P.C., welcomes new attorney Craig Shirley to the firm.

Winston

McGlinchey Staf-

ford announces the launch of Uplift, the firm’s newly reimagined women’s initiative. Uplift will be a forum for McGlinchey’s women attorneys to convene, engage, empower and advocate for each other in their work, in leadership, in their communities and across the legal profession and industries the firm serves.

Shirley

Fish Nelson & Holden is pleased to announce that Ashleigh Woodham has rejoined the firm as an associate attorney. Her litigation practice will continue to focus on workers’ compensation and employer liability.

Woodham

RumbergerKirk’s 2021 Summer Associate Program offers law students who Potts are entering their final year of law school the hands-on training and development that will prepare them for a career in litigation. This summer, the firm welcomed Julie Potts, a student at The University of Alabama School of Law, to the program in its Birmingham office.

Lightfoot, Franklin & White LLC is proud to welcome its inaugural class for the 2021 Lightfoot Trial Academy: Greta Chen, Mary Catherine Cook, Olivia Fenderson, Stephen Galloway, Natalia Malinowski, Roop Patel and Tomás Rios.

R. Wendell Shef-

field, managing partner of Sheffield & Lentine, P.C., has been awarded the Roderick Beddow Sr. Lifetime Achievement Award by Sheffield the Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association for his extraordinary service to the ACDLA and the criminal defense bar.

Balch & Bingham’s Ed Haden, a Partner in the firm’s Birmingham office, recently authored “Alabama Appellate Practice,” a 450-page book published by CLE Alabama.

Sheffield & Lentine, P.C., is pleased to announce that

John C. (“JC”)

Lentine has joined the firm as an associate.

Haden

Lentine

Sirote has now officially combined with Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, to launch Dentons Sirote, positioning the firm as the first global law firm in Alabama.

Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C., is honored to announce that Birmingham office Managing Principal Josh Jones has been appointed to serve for a third year as co-chair of the American Bar Association Litigation Section’s Audio Content Committee.

Jones

Baker Donelson was recognized by Seramount (formerly Working Mother Media) as one of the “Best Law Firms for Women” for the fifth consecutive year.

Hooks Kennedy

The Alabama Defense Lawyers Association recently held its 57th Annual Membership Meeting and Elections, confirming a new slate of officers, Still including Stephen W. Still Jr. of Starnes Davis Florie LLP in the position of President-Elect, Jonathan M. Hooks of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial in the position of Secretary-Treasurer and Hannah Torbert Kennedy of Wade S. Anderson & Associates in the position of Young Lawyers

The multi-regional firm McGlinchey Stafford announces that it has updated the structure of its governing committees and formed a new executive Policy Committee. Birmingham attorney Christopher Couch has been named to the new Policy Committee, which will focus on helping the firm evolve to capitalize on opportunities in business and legal landscape.

The Alabama Defense Lawyers Association welcomes M. Jansen Voss of Christian & Small LLP to its Board of Directors to serve a threeyear term ending

Voss Andress

Sipes Burr & Forman is pleased to announce the addition of D. Keith Andress and Jade E. Sipes to the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Keith joins the firm as partner and Jade joins as counsel.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP welcomes 13 new associate attorneys to its Birmingham office: Sarah A. Baldwin, Sarah Gunn, Hirshel M. Hall, Katie A. Humphries, Demi A. Kampakis, Mallory C. Koger, J. Tanner Lusk, Jackson Olsen, Carson S. Phillips, William Stoll, Sarahanne Y. Vaughan, Mary

Katherine White

and Sydney H. Willmann.

Blake Harper

has joined Baker Donelson as an associate attorney in the corporate practice group.

Harper

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