Convincing appellate judges is different from persuading a jury. It’s a challenge I continue to enjoy.
Aaron focuses his practice on appellate litigation and dispositive-motion briefing. He has represented multiple clients in appeals before the Alabama Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeal, the Texas trial and appellate courts, and the United States Supreme Court, and has served as appellate counsel for clients in major trials in Alabama and Texas. Aaron is also experienced in defending personal-injury, business-litigation, construction-defect and professional-malpractice cases and has published on Alabama legal-malpractice law for the American Bar Association’s Professional Liability Litigation Committee. Aaron also represents clients in lawsuits concerning charter schools, oil-and-gas contracts, and property damage.
Education
Bar Admissions
Court Admissions
Areas of Practice
Acknowledgements
- Best Lawyers® - Appellate Practice
- Youngest chairman ever elected of the Alabama State Bar's Appellate-Practice Section
- Served on the steering committee for the Eleventh Circuit Appellate Practice Institute
- Mid-South Rising Stars® (by Thomson Reuters) Litigation 2011-2018; Appellate 2019, 2021
Professional Affiliations & Memberships
- American Bar Association, Appellate Practice Section
- Alabama Bar Association, Past Chairman, Appellate Practice Section
- Birmingham Bar Association
- Order of the Coif
- Eleventh Circuit Appellate Practice Institute Steering Committee, Member
Related Knowledge
News
- Richardson v. Mobile County; Phelps v. Mobile County. These combined cases on appeal presented a question of first impression to the Alabama Supreme Court: may private landowners hold a county liable for rainwater run-off that overflows a public road and enters their land? The Court answered that question in the County’s favor, holding that our client owed no duty to the adjoining landowners to turn public roads into storm-water drainage systems. This ruling will affect all 67 counties in Alabama.
- Kary Meadows v. Steven Shaver et al. Our client was the director of a local community-corrections program and was sued because the plaintiff was held in detention for months beyond his end of sentence. But the Alabama Supreme Court affirmed the lower court’s summary judgment in our favor, holding that the director owed no duty to the inmate to release him without instruction from state corrections officials. The Court also made new law, adopting our arguments as to a material point of summary-judgment procedure that will affect Alabama civil practice at large.
- Alexis Reese v. Varden Capital Properties. After the trial court denied our summary-judgment motion, the Alabama Supreme Court, in what is very rare in Alabama practice, granted an interlocutory appeal on the central statute-of-limitations issue and found for our client, the landowner defendant, ruling that the plaintiff had failed to evidence bona fide intent to perfect service on our client at the time the complaint was filed, making the entire case time-barred.