Authored by Dean Emeritus Charles W. Gamble, Professor Emeritus Robert J. Goodwin and Terrence W. McCarthy. Judges at all levels and lawyers alike depend on McElroy’s Alabama Evidence as the complete and final authority regarding Alabama evidence issues. This is a one-year digital subscription.
Professor Goodwin obtained his B.A. degree from the University of Missouri and his J.D. degree from Washington University.Professor Goodwin taught at Washington University’s School of Law from 1981 to 1983 and joined the faculty at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law in the fall of 1983. He was the director of Cumberland’s Center for Trial Advocacy and Clinical Education from 1984 to 1991. During this time the Center was awarded the American College of Trial Lawyer’s prestigious “Emil Gumpert Award” for excellence in teaching trial advocacy. He served as Cumberland’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2012 to 2014. Professor Goodwin is the author of the nationally adopted law school casebook, Criminal and Forensic Evidence, and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He is a co-author of McElroy’s Alabama Evidence, and Gamble’s Alabama Rules of Evidence, and serves as reporter for the Alabama Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on the Alabama Rules of Evidence. Professor Goodwin has written extensively on issues related to expert testimony and his articles have been cited by state and federal courts.
Terry McCarthy is a partner at the Birmingham law firm of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, and is the co-author (along with Charles Gamble and Robert Goodwin) of the Seventh Edition of McElroy’s Alabama Evidence and the Third Edition of Gamble’s Alabama Rules of Evidence. He has also authored numerous scholarly articles on evidence issues and gives several CLE presentations each year on various evidence topics. Terry has taught evidence courses as an adjunct professor for most of his legal career at multiple law schools, and he currently teaches first year Civil Procedure at The University of Alabama School of Law. He serves on the advisory committee for the Alabama Rules of Evidence, and is a graduate of The University of Alabama School of Law. Terry also has a diverse trial and appellate practice and has served as lead counsel in various matters in more than 25 states throughout the country. He may be reached at tmccarthy@lightfootlaw.com.
