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Attorneys in the News
Al Vance, a former engineer who joined the Bar in 2000, has launched a mediation and arbitration practice at Vance Dispute Resolution, PC, priVance marily focused on employment/labor, personal injury, product liability, and professional liability.
The Honorable
Anne Lamkin
Durward and the
Honorable Martha
Reeves Cook were recently recognized by Cumberland School Cook of Law for their volunteer efforts and commitment to Cumberland and its students over many years. Judge Durward, a 1995 graduate of Cumberland, was named the 2021 Durward Volunteer of the Year. Judge Cook, a 1996 graduate of Cumberland, was named the 2022 Volunteer of the Year. Both were recognized on April 2, 2022, at Cumberland’s 175th Anniversary and Reunion event.
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that the following attorneys have joined the firm’s Birmingham office as associates: Stephanie A. Johnson, Mason Rollins, Carmen Weite and Britney M. Williams.
At Cumberland School of Law’s 175th Anniversary and Reunion event,
Stephanie Hous-
ton Mays was honored with the law school’s 2022 Young Alumna of the Year award.
Mays
Lindsay C. Ronilo
announces the formation of Ronilo Law, a firm dedicated to serving clients in family law cases and more, with a focus in divorce, custody, Ronilo appeals, juvenile dependency, adoptions, and wills. The firm’s office is located at 800 Corporate Parkway, Suite 100, Birmingham, Alabama 35242.
Kyle Smith has been selected as Dentons Sirote’s Chief Operating Officer; Smith is a shareholder and chair of Dentons Sirote’s Employment Smith and Labor practice and will continue to lead that team as he maintains his practice.
Goozeé Stevan Goozeé of the law firm of Law Office of Stevan Goozeé, PC has recently accepted an appointment by the Alabama Association of Justice to the Alabama Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution. Goozeé has been mediating personal injury and workers’ compensation claims as part of his practice since 2007.
Fann Hazelton
Moore Young
Christian & Small LLP is pleased to welcome the attorneys of Moore, Young, Foster, & Hazelton LLP, which recently joined with the firm: Neal Moore, Jack Young, and Jeremy Hazelton join as partners and Kendall Fann joins as an associate.
Blackmon Proctor
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is proud to announce that Birmingham associates Stanley E. Blackmon and T. Brooks Proctor have been selected
Bolling
Moore Busby
Walls
Dentons Sirote is honored to announce that J. Winston Busby and Crystal H. Walls have recently re-joined the Firm as shareholders. Additionally, Trey Bolling and Ryan R. Moore have been elected as shareholders of the firm. The new shareholders represent a broad range of practice areas, including Corporate, Real Estate, Tax and Trusts, Estates and Wealth Preservation.
Cumberland School of Law recently introduced a new award: the Outstanding Instructor Award for the school’s online master’s program. Collins Noelle Fleming Collins, a 1998 Cumberland School of Law graduate, has been named the first award recipient. The award was established to recognize an instructor in the online master’s program, which delivers the Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.) degree and the Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree for professionals.
Hall Booth Smith PC has added an of counsel and three partners to its Birmingham office: Peter Bolvig, Phillip Luke and Jud Stanford have joined the firm as partners. William A. Mudd joined as of counsel.
Marsh Rickard & Bryan attorney Ty Brown has been selected to serve as the President of the Board of Directors for the Alabama Head Injury FounBrown dation. AHiF’s mission is to improve the quality of life for survivors of traumatic brain injury and for their families.
Hawkins
District of Alabama. Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP partner Chris-
topher L. Haw-
kins has been appointed by the Eleventh Circuit Court to serve as a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Middle
Dentons Sirote is pleased to announce that its beloved late partner, colleague and friend, Lenora Walker Pate, was posthumously awarded the 2021 Susan Bevill Livingston Leadership Award by the Women’s Section of the Alabama State Bar.
Hare Wynn Newell & Newton, LLP is
Ashley Reitz Peinhardt, Christopher Randolph and Tempe Smith. delighted to reveal that Ashley Reitz Peinhardt, Christopher Randolph and Tempe Smith have recently become partners in the firm.
Hale
Pittman
Nomberg
Marshall
White Stockham, Cooper & Potts, P.C. is pleased to announce that Justin I. Hale has become a named partner in the firm. The firm name is now Stockham, Cooper, Potts & Hale, P.C.
Swift Currie McGhee & Hiers LLP has added Elizabeth Pittman as an associate in its Birmingham office.
David Nomberg of The Nomberg Law Firm was recently honored with the Karen E. Nomberg Volunteer Inspiration Award by Heart Gallery Alabama.
White Arnold & Dowd P.C. shareholders J. Mark White and Hope S. Marshall were recently recognized by Alabama Appleseed for their pro bono work in helping secure the release of Michael Schumacher, an inmate of 35 years who had received a life sentence for robbery. Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce the launch of the firm’s
second pro bono initiative dedicated to supporting Black small businesses and nonprofit organizations. The Black
Small Business and Nonprofit Com-
munity Clinic, a joint project of Bradley and Legal Services Alabama (LSA), will provide accessible and affordable business-oriented legal services to local Black small businesses and nonprofits throughout Birmingham.
Blow Fancher
Baker Donelson is honored to announce that Allen Blow and Sharonda Childs Fancher have been elected as shareholders of the firm.
Jim Vann was recently named the president of the Birmingham office of Dentons Sirote. Vann will continue practicing during his tenure as president of the firm.
Matt Minner, Brian Vines and Jamie Moncus, formerly partners at Hare Wynn Newell & Newton, announce the formation of Minner Vines Moncus PLLC with offices in Birmingham, Alabama and Lexington, Kentucky.
Vineyard Crew Law Group, P.C. is proud to announce that
Christina V. Vine-
yard has graduated from the Birmingham Bar Association’s Future Leaders Forum 2021 class.
Lightfoot, Franklin & White LLC is pleased to welcome Mary
Parrish McCracken
to its Birmingham office.
McCracken Wendy Brooks Crew of Crew Law Group, P.C. was recently named a Diplomat of the American College of Family Trial Lawyers. Fellowship is extended only by invitation to a Crew select group of 100 of the top family trial lawyers across the United States and to lawyers who are regarded as the best in their state.
Bradley Partner Nancy Ball currently serves as President of the Children’s Arts Ball Guild, a nonprofit organization that provides social emotional learning programs for educators, caregivers and children. Prior to becoming President, Nancy served as Vice President.
Greene Pate
Dentons is pleased to share that three of the Firm’s lawyers — Lenora Walker Pate (posthumously), Gaile
Pugh Gratton
Greene and James Williams (“Jim”) S. Williams — have been inducted into the Birmingham Bar Foundation Fellows Class of 2022.
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