Marc James Ayers

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Marc James Ayers is a partner in the Birmingham, Alabama office of the Bradley firm, and is a member of Bradley’s Appellate Litigation Group.  Marc represents individual, corporate and governmental clients before state and federal appellate and trial courts throughout the country. Marc is listed in Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America® and Mid-South Super Lawyers in the field of Appellate Law, and has represented clients on petitions for certiorari and amicus curiae briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court. Marc has also presented oral argument in the Fourth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and D.C. circuits, and in various state appellate courts in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, New York, Maryland, Mississippi, Texas and Wyoming.

Marc’s accomplishments have been recognized by his election as a Fellow in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Marc served as chair of the Appellate Practice Section of the Alabama State Bar from 2008-2010, and is board certified in appellate practice by the Florida Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization and Education. He is frequently invited to lecture on appellate practice and is the author of several articles on that subject, among others. He also was nominated by the Justices of the Alabama Supreme Court to serve on both the Alabama Pattern Jury Instructions Committee as well as the Standing Committee on the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure.  Prior to joining Bradley, Marc clerked for Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice J. Gorman Houston, Jr.  Marc has also taught as an adjunct professor of law, teaching constitutional and public interest law, administrative law, and legal writing/appellate advocacy. His work on statutory interpretation was cited as one of the most pertinent sources that influenced Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner in their treatise Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts.