Thomas S. “Spin” Spires was admitted to the Alabama Bar in 1984.  He graduated cum laude from Birmingham-Southern College with a Bachelor  of Arts degree in 1981. He then attended the Cumberland School of Law  at Samford University and graduated in 1984 with a J.D. degree. Spin was  one of the founding partners of this firm in 1990. He is a member of  the Birmingham and Alabama Bar Associations, Alabama State Bar, the  Defense Research Institute and has been listed in Woodward & White’s  “Best Lawyers in America” for the past 30 years. He is a practicing  member of the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern  Districts of Alabama. Spin’s areas of practice include products  liability, trucking litigation, industrial accidents, wrongful death,  insurance coverage disputes, premises liability and environmental  claims. He also serves as a mediator in a wide variety of cases  including products liability, automobile and trucking accidents,  premises liability, personal injury, wrongful death, as well as  insurance and coverage issues. Spin has been recognized as one of the  “Top Attorneys in Birmingham” by peer members as published by Birmingham  Magazine, as well as a “Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers Magazine.  He  enjoys many types of outdoor sports including flying, biking and  kayaking.