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Robert Hawthorne Related Seminars and Products

Gaines Gault Hendrix, P.C.

Trey grew up in Trussville, Alabama, and went to college at Auburn University, where he majored in Finance. After graduating from Auburn, Trey was awarded an academic scholarship to attend law school at the University of Alabama.
Trey joined Gaines Gault Hendrix in 2014, and focuses on personal injury, construction defect, and telecommunications infrastructure litigation. However, prior to joining the firm, he handled cases in a wide variety of areas, ranging from bankruptcy and family law to catastrophic personal injury, class actions, and appeals before the 11th Circuit. He has worked on matters as small as drafting standard wills and incorporating single member LLCs to matters as large as the administration of mass tort settlements of over $140 million. As a result, Trey has a working knowledge of nearly every area of law he might encounter.  He and his wife, Jennifer, live in Trussville, along with his daughter, Devon, and two stepdaughters, Averi and Adalyn. Outside the office, Trey is an avid supporter of all things Auburn and loves the outdoors. He has worked with the Arthritis Foundation, the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the United Way, and is an active member of Briarwood Presbyterian Church.

James Brannan Related Seminars and Products

Morgan & Morgan Birmingham, PLLC

Bernie Brannan was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Mississippi, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and a Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors Scholar. Bernie received his J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law. In law school, he was a competitive trial team member and the recipient of the George Peach Taylor Award for Trial Advocacy.

After graduating law school, Bernie clerked for The Honorable J. Scott Vowell, Presiding Judge of the 10th Judicial Circuit of Alabama. Following his clerkship, Bernie worked with and eventually became a Partner at a Birmingham law firm representing insurance companies in first-party extra-contractual, bad faith, and coverage litigation as well as their insureds in catastrophic personal injury, automobile and trucking negligence, and construction defect litigation. Bernie came to Morgan & Morgan after over a decade of defense work. He has tried more than forty-five jury trials to verdict and participated in countless hearings, bench trials, depositions, arbitrations, and mediations throughout the State and Federal Courts of Alabama. He now uses this experience to help people injured by the acts of others.

Bernie’s litigation skills and successes have been recognized by numerous organizations and peer-review lists. In 2016, he tried more civil jury trials to verdict than any other lawyer in Alabama and was listed by The Alabama Jury Verdict Reporter as the “Most Prolific Trial Attorney” that year. Bernie has consistently been listed as a “Rising Star” by Mid-South Super Lawyers (2017-present) and has been named by Best Lawyers as “One to Watch” since 2021. Bernie has served on the faculty of the Alabama Defense Lawyers’ Association Bibb Allen Memorial Trial Academy and has given multiple continuing legal education presentations on trial skills and jury selection.