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PATRICK J. BALLARD founded Ballard Law Office in Birmingham in 2000. He focuses his practice on personal injury, including auto, trucking, and construction accidents; wrongful death; workers' compensation; and products liability. Mr. Ballard provides counsel to construction companies, homeowners and contractors. He earned his B.S. degree from Texas A&M and his J.D. degree from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. Mr. Ballard is a member of the Birmingham Bar Association, where he was chairman of the Electronic Filing Protocols Committee. He is a past member of the Executive Committee of the Birmingham Bar Association and president of the Solo/Small Firm Section. Mr. Ballard also is a member of the Alabama Association for Justice, serving on its Executive Committee and is a member of the American Association for Justice. BRANDON T. BISHOP is an attorney at Gaines Wolter Kinney, where his main areas of practice are appellate advocacy, automobile litigation, complex and commercial litigation, general civil litigation, insurance coverage, insurance defense, premises liability, product liability and trucking litigation. Mr. Bishop is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Alabama. He also is a member of the Bench and Bar Legal Honor Society and the National Trial Advocacy Team, and received the American Judicature Society Award for Trial Advocacy. Mr. Bishop earned his bachelor's degree from Auburn University and his J.D. degree from University of Alabama School of Law. He is a member the American, Alabama and Birmingham bar associations, and the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association. STEVE R. BURFORD is an AV peer reviewed rated lawyer who concentrates in corporate litigation representing insurers, manufacturers, commercial freight companies and other businesses. Mr. Burford has extensive experience in all aspects of insurance related law, including representation of insureds, as well as insurers in first party actions, particularly fraud, punitive damages, personal injury, product liability actions and employment-related actions. He provides coverage related services, including policy coverage analysis and representing insurers and businesses in declaratory judgment actions. As part of his corporate litigation practice, Mr. Burford has become well experienced in defending insurers, manufacturers and other businesses in class action litigation. He has been in practice since 1990, having served as a clerk to the Chief Justice of Alabama. Mr. Burford is admitted to all federal courts in Alabama and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. He graduated from Birmingham-Southern College and was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 1990. Mr. Burford is a member of the Alabama State Bar, Birmingham Bar Association, Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, the Transportation Lawyers Association and the Defense Research Institute. He earned his Juris Doctor from The Cumberland School of Law. Mr. Burford served as the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Trial Advocacy and is the author of The Present Trend Toward A Good Faith Exception to the Employment at Will Doctrine, 13 Am. J. Trial Advoc.715 (1989). He has been a featured speaker at a number of business functions, trade organization meetings and continuing legal education seminars. AUBREY J. HOLLOWAY JR. is a partner in the firm, Christian & Small LLP. Mr. Holloway has more than 20 years of practice in a broad area of civil trial litigation, primarily focused on insurance defense with an emphasis on both commercial and personal transportation. His practice also includes general corporate liability litigation, premises liability and insurance coverage litigation. Mr. Holloway is a former trial counsel to Allstate Insurance Company's litigation department and previously served as general counsel to Molton, Allen & Williams, a mortgage bank and insurance brokerage. He has tried more than 100 jury trials to verdict as lead or solo counsel and was ranked the most prolific trial attorney in 2006 by the Alabama Jury Verdict Reporter. Mr. Holloway is a former law clerk to the Honorable Charles R. Crowder, 10th Judicial Circuit of Alabama. He is admitted to practice before the Alabama State Bar and the U.S. District Court (Northern, Middle and Southern districts) of Alabama. Mr. Holloway earned his B.A. degree from Middle Tennessee State University and his J.D. degree from Cumberland School of Law. He is a member of the American (Litigation and Insurance sections), Alabama and Birmingham bar associations, and the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association. Mr. Holloway also is a member of the Primerus Defense Institute and the Defense Research Institute. He was ranked "Most Prolific Trial Attorney in 2006" and "Third Most Prolific Attorney, 2002-06" by the Alabama Jury Verdict Reporter.
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