Procedural Traps and Other Pitfalls

Aaron McLeod Related Seminars and Products

Adams and Reese, LLP

Aaron McLeod focuses his practice at Adams and Reese on appellate litigation and dispositive-motion briefing. He has represented clients in appeals before the Alabama Supreme Court, the Eleventh, Sixth, and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeal, the Texas appellate courts, and the United States Supreme Court, and has served as appellate counsel for clients in major trials in Alabama and Texas. Aaron also handles tort, commercial, construction, and professional-malpractice cases, and has published on Alabama legal-malpractice law for the American Bar Association’s Professional Liability Litigation Committee.

Aaron served as the youngest chairman ever elected for the Alabama State Bar’s Appellate Practice section.

Justice Brady Mendheim Jr. Related Seminars and Products

Supreme Court of Alabama

Brady E. (Brad) Mendheim, Jr., was appointed to the Alabama Supreme  Court on January 22, 2018, by Governor Kay Ivey to fill a vacancy  created by the retirement of Associate Justice Glenn Murdock. Before his  appointment, Justice Mendheim served as a circuit judge for the 20th  Judicial Circuit (Henry and Houston Counties), a position he had held  since 2009. From 2001 until 2009, Justice Mendheim served as a district  judge in Houston County. From 2001 until his appointment as an Associate  Justice, he was appointed specially by various Chief Justices to  preside over more than 250 cases in more than 40 Alabama counties.  He graduated from Auburn University with high honors and from Samford University's Cumberland School of Law in 1993.

Judge Bernard Harwood Related Seminars and Products

Rosen Harwood PA

Bernard Harwood attended the University of the South and The University of Alabama to earn his B.S. He earned his LL.B., Order of the Coif, from The University of Alabama School of Law. He served as a justice on the Alabama Supreme Court from January 2001 to January 2007. For ten years prior to that he served a Circuit Judge for the 6th Judicial Circuit. He was engaged in the private practice of law for 28 years preceding his judicial service, with a concentration in trial work. He has now returned to the private practice of law in Tuscaloosa with the firm of Rosen Harwood. For over 20 years Mr. Harwood taught courses in Trial Advocacy at The University of Alabama School of Law and now teaches an evidence course there. He is a member of the Tuscaloosa County, Alabama State, and American Bar Associations, and the Alabama Law Institute. Justice Harwood is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and has been certified an "Advocate" by The American Board of Trial Advocacy. He is past-president of the Tuscaloosa County Bar Association, the Tuscaloosa Inn of Court, and the Farrah Law Society/Order of the Coif. He is a Fellow of both the Alabama and the American Bar Foundations. Judge Harwood is active as an civil litigator, an appellate counsel, and as an arbitrator and a mediator. He is a certified American Arbitration Association arbitrator and mediator and is a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals.

David George Wirtes, Jr. Related Seminars and Products

Cunningham Bounds LLC

David G. Wirtes, Jr. is a member of Cunningham Bounds, LLC of Mobile, Alabama, where he focuses on strategic planning, motion practice and appeals. Mr. Wirtes is licensed in all state and federal courts in Alabama and Mississippi, the Fifth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He is active in numerous professional organizations, including as a member of the Alabama and Mississippi State Bar Associations , long-time member of the Alabama Supreme Court's Standing Committee on the Rules of Appellate Procedure, Sustaining Member of the Alabama Association for Justice (and Member of its Board of Governors and Executive Committee (1990-present); Member and/or Chairman, Amicus Curiae Committee (1990-present); and co-editor, the Alabama Association for Justice Journal (1996-present)), and the American Association for Justice where he serves as a Member of its Amicus Curiae Committee (1999-present). Mr. Wirtes is a Sustaining Fellow, and former Officer and Trustee of the National Civil Justice Institute; a Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America; a Founder and former Executive Director of the American Institute of Appellate Practice; and a Sustaining Member and the former Alabama Representative for Public Justice. He has published numerous journal articles and is a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education seminars, addressing topics such as Defeating Unlawful Discrimination in Jury Selection, Evidence, Examination of Witnesses, State Constitutional Protections, Immunity, Appellate Practice and Procedure, Electronic Discovery, and HIPAA and Ex parte Communications with Healthcare Providers.