Judge Bernard Harwood

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.