Admitted
1974, Alabama; 1975, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Court of Federal Cla
Law School
Harvard University, J.D., cum laude, 1974
Law School Graduation Year
1974
College
Yale University, B.A., cum laude, 1969
Memberships
Birmingham and American Bar Associations; Alabama State Bar; American Arbitration Association (Member, Board of Directors, 2001—)
Biographical
Law Clerk, U.S. District Judge Seybourn H. Lynne, Northern District of Alabama, 1974-1975. Co-Author: Public Office as a Public Trust: A Suggestion that Impeachment for High Crimes and Misdemeanors Implies a Fiduciary Standard, 63 Georgetown Law Review 1025, 1975; Liability of Architect-Engineers, 80-2 Construction Briefings, March, 1980. Author: The Constitutionality of Alabama's Statute of Limitations for Construction Litigation: The Legislature Tries Again, 11 Cumberland Law Review, 1980; Can of Worms: Discovery in Construction Litigation, 11 Amer. J. Trial Advocacy 367 (1987). Co-Author: Architect-Engineer Liability Under Alabama Law, Cambridge Institute, 1988. Co-Author, Construction Claims Under Alabama Law, Cambridge Institute, 1989; Engineers and New Technology, Education and Continuing Education for the Civil Engineer (ASCE 1990); The Effect of Licensing Laws on Design-Build Projects, Design-Build Contracting Handbook (Wiley, 1992); Alabama Survey, Fifty State Construction Lien and Bond Law (Wiley, 1992); Industrial Contracts, Construction Project Formbook (Wiley, 1994). Fellow, American College of Construction Lawyers.