Lee R. Benton

Commercial, Mediation
2019 Third Avenue North
Birmingham, Alabama 35203


Commercial

Admitted

1977, Alabama and U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th and 11th Circuits; 2001, Tennessee

Law School

Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., cum laude, 1977

Law School Graduation Year

1977

College

Auburn University, B.S., 1974

Memberships

Birmingham (Executive Committee, 1993-1995; Chairman, Grievance Committee, 1990), Federal and American (Member, Litigation Section) Bar Associations; Alabama State Bar (Chairman, 1988, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section); Alabama Trial Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

Biographical

Phi Delta Phi. Member, Cumberland Moot Court Board. Author: Comment, The Tort of Bad Faith: A Perspective Look at the Insurer's Expanding Liability, p. 241, Vol. 8, No. 1, Cumberland Law Review, Spring, 1977. Law Clerk to Justice Richard L. Jones, Alabama Supreme Court, 1977-1978. Treasurer, Birmingham Bar Foundation.

Military