Scott Donaldson was a Judge on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals from 2013 until retiring in 2021 and was a circuit judge from 2003-2013. Before taking office, he had an extensive trial and appellate law practice for 18 years. Donaldson was also the Chief Judge of the Court of the Judiciary (the court that adjudicates all complaints filed against Alabama judges).  He served on the Alabama State Bar Commission and State Bar Disciplinary Commission and is a current or former chair or member of numerous other judicial and legal committees including the Evidence Committee, the Civil Pattern Jury Instructions Committee, and the Appellate Rules Committee.  He has been an attorney or trial judge in approximately 180 jury trials and in hundreds of bench trials.   After retiring from the bench, Donaldson had an active mediation, arbitration, trial and appellate law practice. He is currently the General Counsel for the DCH Health System.

Donaldson is a faculty member of the National Judicial College and has taught many four-day evidence courses to hundreds of trial judges across the country.  He has also taught evidence courses for 13 state judicial associations, the ABA Tort, Trial & Insurance Practice Section, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and for the judges of the United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board.  He teaches evidence and trial skills courses for the Alabama Circuit/District Judges Associations including new judge orientation sessions and for the Probate Judges Association. Donaldson taught Trial Advocacy at the University of Alabama School of Law each semester from 2006-2022 and was an instructor for the 40-hour Domestic Relations/Civil mediator training course for alabamamediationtraining.com. He is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education programs and has authored numerous legal articles as well as the Alabama Trial Notebook, published by the University of Alabama School of Law CLE program. He is a Fellow of the Alabama Law Foundation and Vice-President of the Board of Directors. 

Mr. Haden is a Partner in the firm's Birmingham office, chairs the firm’s Appellate Practice Group, and is the author of the Alabama Appellate Practice Guide. His practice focuses on appellate litigation, including litigation in the healthcare, business, and energy fields. Before joining the firm, Ed served as the Nominations and Constitutional Law Counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for Chairman Orrin Hatch and as Chief Counsel of the Courts Subcommittee for Senator Jeff Sessions. He also clerked for the Honorable E. Grady Jolly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and served as a staff attorney for the Honorable Harold See of the Supreme Court of Alabama. Ed serves on the Lawyers Advisory Committee of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Best Lawyers in America ranked Balch & Bingham LLP number one in Appellate Law in Alabama and annually recognizes Ed. Martindale Hubbell ranked Ed as AV Preeminent. Benchmark Appellate recognizes Ed as a star in Eleventh Circuit-Alabama appeals. Ed regularly litigates appeals in the Supreme Court of Alabama and the Eleventh Circuit.

Aaron focuses his practice on appellate litigation and dispositive-motion briefing.  He has represented multiple clients in appeals before the Alabama Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeal, the Texas trial and appellate courts, and the United States Supreme Court, and has served as appellate counsel for clients in major trials in Alabama and Texas.  Aaron is also experienced in defending personal-injury, business-litigation, construction-defect and professional-malpractice cases and has published on Alabama legal-malpractice law for the American Bar Association’s Professional Liability Litigation Committee.  Aaron also represents clients in lawsuits concerning charter schools, oil-and-gas contracts, and property damage.

Marc James Ayers represents individual, corporate and governmental clients before state and federal appellate and trial courts throughout the country. Marc is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® and Mid-South Super Lawyers in the field of Appellate Law. He also has represented clients on petitions for certiorari and amicus curiae briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court. Marc has presented oral argument in the Fourth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and D.C. circuits, and in various state appellate courts in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, New York, Maryland, Mississippi, Texas and Wyoming.

Marc’s accomplishments have been recognized by his election as a Fellow in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Marc served as chair of the Appellate Practice Section of the Alabama State Bar from 2008-2010, and is board certified in appellate practice by the Florida Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization and Education. He is frequently invited to lecture on appellate practice and is the author of several articles on that subject, among others. He also was nominated by the Justices of the Alabama Supreme Court to serve on both the Alabama Pattern Jury Instructions Committee as well as the Standing Committee on the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Prior to joining Bradley, Marc clerked for Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice J. Gorman Houston, Jr. (1998-99), and later served as Justice Houston’s senior staff attorney (2001-2004). Between those positions, Marc was in private practice, specializing in appellate litigation and constitutional and administrative law. During that time, he also taught as an adjunct professor of law, teaching First Amendment Law, Administrative Law, Public Interest Law, and legal writing/appellate advocacy. His work on statutory interpretation was cited as one of the most pertinent sources that influenced Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner in their treatise Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts.

Matt Fridy’s practice focuses on corporate litigation, constitutional  law, campaign finance, agricultural/food law, appellate and critical  motion litigation, and general litigation. A member of the Alabama State  Bar, he is admitted to practice before the United States Court of  Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, all Alabama federal district courts,  and all Alabama state courts.  Matt has served as an attorney to the Governor, Finance Director, and  Comptroller of Alabama, successfully defending a State law barring  government payroll deductions for political activity. He defended  several members of the Alabama Educational Television Commission, which  oversees Alabama Public Television, in a lawsuit by the Commission’s  former executive director alleging violations of the State Open Meetings  Act. His current work includes, among other things, representing a  national developer of low-income housing tax credit properties in a  challenge to the manner in which Boards of Equalization assess such  properties, and representing several produce dealers and distributors  relative to compliance with and litigation under the federal Perishable  Agricultural Commodities Act.
Drawing on his years of experience as a senior staff attorney in the  Alabama appellate courts, Matt represents the firm’s clients on an  ongoing basis before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Alabama  Supreme Court, and the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.  Matt received his B.A. in history, cum laude, from the University of  Montevallo and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Cumberland School of  Law at Samford University.

Travis Ramey is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Instruction and Director of the Appellate Advocacy Clinic, which provides free legal assistance to parties and amici curiae in civil, criminal, and administrative appeals. Before joining the University of Alabama School of Law faculty in 2023, Professor Ramey was a partner at Burr & Forman LLP, where his practice focused on appellate matters. During his time in private practice, Professor Ramey litigated more than 100 appellate matters in multiple state and federal courts, including representing parties on the merits and as amici curiae in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Professor Ramey received his J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Alabama School of Law. His scholarship focuses on appellate procedure and tort law. He currently serves as a member of the Standing Committee on the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure.