Trial Skills

Rip Andrews Related Seminars and Products

Marsh Rickard & Bryan PC

Mr. Andrews is a graduate of Georgetown University and The University of Alabama School of Law.  He is a member of the Alabama State Bar and the Alabama Association for Justice.  He practices in the areas of personal injury and products liability, doing both litigation and appeals.

Kendall Dunson Related Seminars and Products

Beasley Allen Crow Methvin Portis & Miles PC

Kendall handles product liability, general personal injury and workers’ compensation cases involving defective industrial machinery as a member of Beasley Allen Law Firm’s Personal Injury and Product Liability Section. He has worked on numerous cases to compensate clients for their losses and influence corporations to design and manufacture safer products.  

Robert MacKenzie Related Seminars and Products

Starnes Davis Florie LLP

Bob MacKenzie is a partner at Starnes Davis Florie, having joined the firm in 1984 after completing law school. Bob's practice is devoted to handling a broad scope of litigation including medical and legal malpractice actions and commercial litigation. Bob also represents lawyers and health care professionals in disciplinary matters before Alabama Regulatory Boards. He has published multiple articles on the defense of legal malpractice suits. He received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina and his J.D. from the Cumberland School of Law. He is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is Past-President of both the Birmingham Bar Association and the Judge James Horton Inn of Court.

Terrence W. McCarthy Related Seminars and Products

Lightfoot, Franklin & White

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.  

Honorable M. Bradley Almond Related Seminars and Products

6th Judicial Circuit

Judge Almond is a graduate (magna cum laude) of Barton College with degrees in History and Political Science. He graduated from The University of Alabama School of Law in 1990 where he was a recipient of the George Peach Taylor Award in Trial Advocacy. He has served as Tuscaloosa County Circuit Judge since 2008. Prior to his appointment, he practiced law with the firm of Almond & Cheshire LLC in Tuscaloosa.

Dean Carole Smitherman Related Seminars and Products

Miles Law School

Dean Smitherman grew up in Birmingham and graduated from Spellman College in Atlanta in 1973. She went on to earn her J.D. at Miles Law School, graduating first in her class in 1979.  Dean Smitherman was first elected to the Birmingham City Council in 2001 and has been re-elected twice. She campaigned unsuccessfully for the mayor's office in 2003, 2007, and 2009. As President of the Birmingham City Council she assumed the office of mayor when Larry Langford was convicted in 2009. A month later, she then lost the position when the new council convened on November 24, 2009, and elected Roderick Royal as council president on a 5–4 vote, thus automatically making Royal the acting mayor. Smitherman later lost her election bid as mayor in a special election following Langford's conviction.  Carole Smitherman was Birmingham's first African-American female mayor. She also was the first African-American woman hired as a deputy district attorney in Jefferson County and first African American female Municipal and Circuit Court Judge in Birmingham. Smitherman also served as a municipal prosecutor for the city of Irondale.  She was elected to her current judicial office in 2012, after beating attorney Pat Thetford. The seat handles civil matters and controversy over $10,000.
 

John Lentine Related Seminars and Products

Sheffield & Lentine PC

Mr. Lentine received his B.A. with honors from the University of West Florida and his J.D. from Cumberland Law School. He is a Past President of the Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the Greater Birmingham Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, and the Legal Aid Society of Birmingham. He is a Life Member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and he has been Board Certified as a Criminal Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and has served as the Board’s State Coordinator in Alabama. He has been appointed by the Alabama Supreme Court to serve on the Alabama Criminal Rules Committee and the Alabama Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions Committee. Mr. Lentine is an adjunct faculty member at Cumberland School of Law where he teaches Trial Advocacy, and the Birmingham School of Law where he teaches criminal law and the Death Penalty. He also teaches at the National Criminal Defense College at Mercer Law School in Macon, Georgia and the Bill Daniel Trial College in Athens, Georgia. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in Birmingham, Super Lawyers of Alabama and the Best Lawyers in America in the area of criminal defense. and was the 2010 recipient of the Judge Walter P. Gewin Award from CLE Alabama for his contributions to the development and presentation of CLE programs.

Gregory Cusimano Related Seminars and Products

Cusimano Roberts Mills & Knowlton, LLC

Greg Cusimano is a partner at Cusimano, Roberts, Mills & Knowlton in Gadsden, Alabama, and a co-founder of Winning Works, LLC, a nationally recognized trial consulting firm. Widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading trial attorneys, he is a former president of the Alabama Association for Justice (formerly ATLA) and a popular speaker who has presented in 48 states on trial strategy, persuasion, and advocacy.
An accomplished author, Greg wrote Winning Case Preparation (AAJ Press/Trial Guides), served as editor of the six-volume Litigating Tort Cases (AAJ Press/Thomson Reuters), and was editor for the first four editions of Alabama Tort Law. Most recently, he published Seeds for Success: Principles of Persuasion (AAJ Press).

Greg is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), a lifetime member of the American Association for Justice’s Board of Governors, and has received both the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Leonard Ring Champion of Justice Award from AAJ. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 1993.