Attorneys in the News

Burr & Forman LLP announces the appointment of April Mason as the new office managing partner of the firm’s Birmingham location, which is Mason the largest of the firm’s 19 offices with nearly 130 attorneys. She succeeds Gary London in this role, who has served in this role for the past eight years.

Marcus M. Maples

of Baker Donelson has been selected to participate in the 2021 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellows Program, Maples a landmark program created by the LCLD to identify, train, and advance the next generation of leaders in the legal profession.

L. McCallum C. McCallum

Hoaglund

LaBella S. McCal-

lum, Charles A.

“Chip” McCallum

III and Eric D. Hoaglund announce the formation of McCallum, Hoaglund & McCallum, LLP where they will specialize in complex defense, business and commercial litigation.

Dominick Feld Hyde, P.C. is pleased to announce that

Alexandra O.

Priester has joined the firm as an associate. Alex will be working in the areas Priester of Estate Planning, Estate Administration, Litigation and Corporate.

Sheffield & Lentine, P.C. is pleased to announce that John C. (J.C.) Lentine has joined the firm as an associate.

Mak Weida

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has awarded its 2021 Diversity Scholarships to law students Gillian Mak from The George Washington University Law School and Jaime Weida from Mississippi College School of Law. Congratulations to these future lawyers.

Watkins & Eager PLLC is pleased to announce that

Ashley C. Scar-

petta has joined the Birmingham office as an associate.

Rumberger Kirk

Scarpetta & Caldwell PA has launched a new podcast called “Legally Qualified,” providing strategic legal insight and analysis for the business community. Each episode will lean on the depth of knowledge and practice areas from the firm’s more than 100 attorneys, sharing personal experiences and advice on trending topics relevant to business leaders.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Martha Roby is joining the firm as a senior advisor in the GovernmenRoby tal Affairs and Economic Development practice groups.

Russell Balch & Bingham proudly announces the addition of Brandi Russell, who joins the firm as its chief diversity & inclusion officer and director of talent management.

David Warren has been named managing shareholder of Ogletree Deakins’ Birmingham office.

Baker Donelson

has received a high score on the Warren Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index, the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality.

Mann & Potter, P.C. is pleased to announce

that Jerry T. “Chip” Crowell has been named an Equity Principal in the law firm and will continue to practice in the area of plaintiff’s personal injury litigation.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

announces that the firm scored a 90 out of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index.

Murphy

Rhyne Teel

Burr & Forman LLP announces the election of four attorneys to partnership in the firm’s Birmingham office: Hanna Lahr, Laura Murphy, Sims Rhyne, and Al Teel.

Baker Donelson has added N. DeWayne Pope to the firm’s Birmingham office as a member of the Business Litigation Group.

Pope Baker Donelson is proud to announce that it has joined Out Leadership, the oldest and largest global coalition of companies working to improve LGBTQ+ equality.

Baker Donelson has been honored by the American Bar Association (ABA) as a recipient of the ABA Free Legal Answers 2020 Pro Bono Leader Award in recognition of the outstanding contriBowman bution of service by the firm’s attorneys to the virtual legal advice clinic. Samuel Bowman is Baker Donelson’s pro bono shareholder.

Brown Byrd

Rogers Roth

Four Birmingham-based Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP partners have been elected as Fellows of the American Bar Foundation: T. Michael Brown, William C. Byrd, E. Mabry Rogers and David Roth.

Gordon

Nathan Gordon

was recently elected a shareholder in Baker Donelson’s Birmingham office. Mr. Gordon is a member of the firm’s Corporate Group, where he represents publicly traded companies and closely held businesses in connection with a wide variety of corporate and real estate matters.

Sharman Enyinnia

Essig Sewell

Lightfoot, Franklin & White LLC announces that Jack Sharman has been appointed by the Georgia governor to serve as special counsel to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office in an investigation by the Fulton County District Attorney into certain activities in Georgia by former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election. Joining him on the team for this matter are Amaobi Enyinnia, Brandon Essig and Jay Sewell.

Sirote is pleased to announce that Nathan Weinert, in the firm’s Real Estate practice group, has been promoted to shareholder status.

Brian O’Dell, a Weinert partner in Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP’s Birmingham office, has been accepted as a Fellow in the American College of Mortgage Attorneys.