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December 20 - Mobile GREGORY M. FRIEDLANDER is the principal of Gregory M. Friedlander & Associates, P.C. in Mobile. Mr. Friedlander has been practicing bankruptcy law for more than 20 years and also practices in the area of intellectual property law. He is a regular speaker on bankruptcy matters before consumer groups and has lectured on intellectual property law to various professional organizations. Mr. Friedlander is a member of the Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section of the Alabama State Bar and the Bankruptcy Section of the Mobile Bar Association. He also is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association; The Mississippi Bar; and the U.S. Patent Bar, which allows him to practice in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Friedlander earned his B.S. degree from Lewis and Clark College and his J.D. degree from Tulane University of Louisiana. DAVID G. KENNEDY is an attorney with Wright, Green, P.C. in Mobile. Mr. Kennedy enjoys handling cases in a variety of areas, including insurance defense, premises liability, wills and estate planning, corporate transactions, commercial and residential construction litigation, medical malpractice, surety and bond defense, and immigration. He has partnered with numerous local businesses in strategic business and legal planning. He is a member of the Mobile Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute and the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association. Mr. Kennedy graduated from the Alabama School of Math and Science, where he currently serves on the Board of Directors. After high school, he graduated from the University of Alabama and thereafter Cumberland School of Law. Mr. Kennedy is licensed in Alabama and Mississippi and various federal courts. HENRY R. SEAWELL IV is the principal member of The Seawell Firm, LLC, an organization established to provide targeted legal and advisory services to small businesses and individuals in need of business development, estate planning and management. Mr. Seawell earned his Bachelor of Science from Louisiana State University. After conducting post-graduate studies in business at the University of South Alabama, he completed his J.D. degree from Cumberland School of Law, Samford University in Birmingham. In the summer of 2006, Mr. Seawell began work with a civil litigation defense firm in Mobile, Alabama, where he remained until January of 2011. He has been involved in trials in a variety of cases in circuit and district courts in Alabama, as well as having spearheaded mediations and countless depositions. Mr. Seawell is licensed to practice law in all state and federal courts in Alabama. He is a member of the Mobile, Alabama Bar Association; Alabama Bar Association; and American Bar Association. He is an active member of Christ Church Cathedral in Mobile, Alabama and the Associated General Contractors of America (Mobile, Alabama Section). Mr. Seawell regularly devotes his time and expertise to the local Volunteer Lawyer's Program, an organization designed to provide the indigent with access to the legal system in the form of quality pro bono representation. JARROD J. WHITE is a partner in Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O'Neal LLP, where he practices in the firm's Mobile office. His practice includes personal injury and consumer fraud actions, commercial and business litigation, product liability litigation, representation of insurers and insurance agencies, defenses of employers against worker's compensation and retaliatory discharge claims, arbitration disputes, and condominium law. He has extensive experience in complex construction litigation and disputes. Mr. White is licensed in both Alabama and Mississippi. He is the author of Email@Work.com: Employer Monitoring of Employee E-Mail, 48 Ala. L. Rev. 1079 (1997); and discussed in U.S. v. Councilman, 418 F.3d 67, 85 (1st Cir. 2005), Konop v. Hawaiin Airlines, Inc., 302 F.3d 868 (9th Cir. 2002), and United States v. Steiger, 318 F.3d 1039, 1050 (11th Cir. 2003). Mr. White earned his undergraduate degree from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida and his law degree from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
December 21 - Birmingham STEVEN M. BROM is the managing member of The Brom Law Firm, LLC in Birmingham, where he practices in the areas of commercial litigation, business transactions, probate and estate planning. Mr. Brom is admitted to the Alabama State Bar; U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern districts of Alabama; U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit; and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Brom earned his A.B. degree in history from the University of Georgia and his J.D. degree from the University of Colorado School of Law. Mr. Brom has served the Alabama State Bar as a member of the Judicial Liaison, Unauthorized Practice of Law and Disciplinary committees and the Birmingham Bar Association as a member of the Budget and Public Service committees. He presently serves as co-chair for the Birmingham Bar Association's Public Service Committee. In 2010, Mr. Brom was selected as a member of the Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum - Class 6. In 2011, Mr. Brom was selected as a member of Leadership Vestavia Hills and received the Super Lawyers Rising Star designation. Mr. Brom previously served as a member of the board of editors for The Alabama Lawyer; authored "Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance: How to Mitigate Exposure in the Medicare Beneficiary Personal Injury Case" - Council on Litigation Management Magazine, Spring, 2011; and has conducted seminars on topics including corporate/business law, construction law, litigation, appeals, liens, pretrial discovery, motion practice, depositions, arbitration and mediation. VICKI M. LANKFORD is a paralegal in the Birmingham law firm of Cory, Watson, Crowder & DeGaris, P.C. Ms. Lankford has been a paralegal for 21 years. Her work is currently focused on the area of plaintiff's personal injury and product liability. Her duties include the gathering and organization of evidence and the preparation of trial exhibits. Ms. Lankford earned her B.A. degree from the University of Montevallo and her A.A. degree in paralegal studies from Southern Institute. KATHARINE F. MUSSO is a partner in the law firm of Jones Walker. Her practice provides regulatory and general corporate services to a variety of financial institutions, including banks, insurance companies (and each of their holding companies), broker-dealer, private funds and investment advisers. Regulatory applications include bank charter; holding company application; merger; and forms A, B-D and ADV. Ms. Musso's compliance counseling includes risk management, BSA/AML, data security, privacy and affiliate transactions. She is a member of the Alabama State Bar, the State Bar of Georgia, the Massachusetts Bar Association (past chair, Property Law Section), the New Hampshire Bar Association, Birmingham Bar Association, Louisiana State Bar Association, the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Ms. Musso earned her B.A. degree, cum laude, from Harvard College and her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. SHERYL L. RILEY is a paralegal with the law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC in Birmingham, Alabama. She currently specializes in construction litigation, but previously worked in class action pharmaceutical cases and in trucking insurance defense litigation. Her job included researching and summarizing medical records and bills, preparing time lines of drug use and injuries, preparing depositions and outlines, meeting with experts, and assisting with trial preparation. She earned her B.A. degree from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana; her master's degree (MEd) from Vanderbilt University; and her paralegal certificate from Sullivan College in Kentucky. Ms. Riley has been awarded the designation of Certified Paralegal (CP) and Advanced Certified Paralegal in Discovery and Trial Preparation by the National Association of Legal Assistants. She is a current member of the National Association of Legal Assistants and the Alabama Association of Paralegals, where she serves as student liaison.
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