Valerie L. Acoff

Employment, Mediation
3121 Zelda Court, P.O. Drawer 5058
Montgomery, Alabama 361035058


Employment

Admitted

1994, Alabama and U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama;1996, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama, 1998, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 2003, U.S. Supreme Court

Law School

Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, J.D., 1994

Law School Graduation Year

1994

College

University of Alabama at Birmingham, B.S., 1991

Memberships

Birmingham and American (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) Bar Associations; Alabama State Bar (Member, Sections on: Labor and Employment; Worker's Compensation); Alabama Council of School Board Attorneys; Alabama Lawyers Association.

Biographical

Earl Warren Scholar, 1991-1994. Associate Editor-in-Chief, 1992-1993, and Research and Writing Editor, 1993-1994, American Journal of Trial Advocacy. Law Clerk, Hon. Charles, A. Thigpen, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, 1994-1995. Co-Author: The Return-to-Work Statute Under the Alabama Worker's Compensation Act, Vol. 61, No. 1, Alabama Lawyer (Jan., 2000). Author: Employees are Being Sued for Providing Employee Job References, 17 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 755. Cordell Hull Teaching Fellow, Cumberland University, 1992-1993. (Resident, Birmingham, Alabama Office)

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