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Martha Reeves Cook was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Selma, Alabama, where both her parents were born and raised. Martha began her career with the law as the Director of Human Resources with a large firm in downtown Birmingham. She then attended Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, the same law school her great grandfather graduated from 100 years earlier. She earned her Juris Doctorate in 1996 and was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in the same year.. Martha practiced business and consumer law, representing both plaintiffs and defendants, for 20 years, before opening Martha Reeves Cook, LLC in 2016. The firm has a large focus on mediation, but Martha continues to represent small business and non-profit clients.

Marion Walker was born in Tuscaloosa, AL and has practiced law in Birmingham for 40 years. Her practice has been varied but she has handled primarily employment discrimination litigation, contracts and business disputes for employers for the last 17 years. She has handled more than 86 cases to verdict and appeared before courts in multiple jurisdictions as well as arbitral forums, the EEOC and the DOL. Clients with from 200 to 65,000 employees have relied upon Marion for counsel in employment matters, including whistleblower defense. For more than 20 years, Marion has been involved in providing mediation services for varied types of cases. In addition to employment matters,  Marion has handled litigation involving personal injury, including products liability (drug & appliance), vehicular accidents, Qui Tam claims, tax, real estate, construction, business dissolutions, stock holder derivative suits and securities.. Among professional organizations, Marion belongs to the International Association of Defense Counsel, Litigation Counsel of America where she is a Fellow, Defense Research Institute, American Bar Association, Alabama and Georgia Bar Associations and the Birmingham Bar. She is licensed to practice law in AL and GA and in federal courts in those states and in Southern Mississippi, Northern & Middle Florida and Alaska. She is a member in good standing of the Fifth, Ninth, Eleventh and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal.  In law school Marion served on the Cumberland Law Review for 3 years, was Comments editor for one and served as an Associate Justice of the Moot Court for 3 years.. In the last  6 years, Marion has written articles and presented seminars on trade secrets, the OFCCP, Davis-Bacon and Service Acts,  E-discovery preservation and production duties, social media in the workplace, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Whistleblower provisions. and the interaction of the FMLA, ADA and Work Comp statutes.. While generally working on hourly rates for legal services, Marion will consider contingency fee agreements in business cases where appropriate.

Jim Pool is a Shareholder and Chair of the firm's Health Care and Charitable Foundations -Tax Exempt Organizations practices. He represents all types of providers and payors nationwide, regarding health care regulatory, tax, compliance and other matters. He also represents a large number of tax exempt entities both inside and outside the health care industry. Jim is regularly consulted regarding a wide range of both health care and tax exempt issues. He is a frequent speaker on health care, corporate compliance and tax exempt entities topics.. Jim regularly counsels his clients regarding the following:. The Best Lawyers in America named Jim "Lawyer of the Year" for 2015 in Non-Profit/Charities Law. He has been listed by The Best Lawyers in America in Health Care Law and Non-Profit/Charities Law since 2006 and by Alabama Super Lawyers since 2012 for Health Care. He is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.. He received his J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law. His additional graduate degrees include an S.T.M. and a M. Div. from Yale Divinity School. He received his B.A. cum laude from Birmingham-Southern College.

I was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 1986, after graduating from Cumberland Law School in Birmingham, Alabama, that same year. Prior to attending law school, I received a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, and was licensed and worked as a Registered Nurse in Alabama, Colorado, and California. After completing law school, I began the practice of law with a small firm in Andalusia, Alabama, where I hoped to put my knowledge of medicine to use as a trial lawyer. I was extremely fortunate to work for and learn from one of the pioneers in Alabama personal injury law, Frank Tipler. During this time, my practice included cases involving medical malpractice, products liability, motor vehicle accidents, and worker’s compensation.. In 1990, I returned to Birmingham. For the next twelve years, I continued to represent personal injury clients and injured workers, but also began representing the interests of the disabled. In particular, I began representing individuals seeking Social Security disability benefits and individuals whose benefits had been denied by long-term disability insurance companies. My background in medicine was particularly well suited to these cases which almost always involve medical problems.. In January 2003, I formed the Pennington Law Firm, L.L.C., where I continue to focus on protecting the rights of the disabled, and continue to represent people with claims against long-term disability insurance companies. This includes individual claims, as well as those governed by the Employees Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”). I have been litigating claims against long-term disability carriers for over 25 years.. I also continue to represent claimants seeking disability benefits under the Social Security Act, including claims for SSI and Disability Insurance Benefits. Since 1990, I have represented several thousand Social Security disability benefit claimants. I frequently receive referrals of disability cases from other attorneys, as well as from health care professionals. I represent Social Security claimants at both the Administrative and Federal Court levels. I frequently represent claimants before the Administration in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee.. I am currently is admitted to practice in all State Courts in Alabama, the Federal Courts for the Northern, and Middle Districts of Alabama, the Northern District of Florida, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Honza Prchal is an associate of the firm whose areas of emphasis include mass torts, especially pharmaceutical and medical device work, and also general litigation. He has spent at least half his time on mass torts even before he started working with W. Lewis Garrison, Jr. in 1997, and he continues to enjoy helping clients navigate and understand an esoteric and confusing area of law where it is far too easy and far too common for clients to feel like numbers, rather than individuals with claims. Since Honza had to go through immigration himself and help his wife through US Immigration, he is highly motivated to try and help clients get on with their lives with less of the unique dread a large impersonal bureaucracy like an MDL proceeding with Plaintiffs’ Management Committees can engender. Honza is a member of the American Bar Association, Phi Delta Phi, the Birmingham Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, a life member of the Antient and Honourable Edmund Burke Society at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Federalist Society, where he was twice an officer at the University of Virginia School of Law and was an officer in the Birmingham Lawyers' chapter for several years. He was a founding member and officer of the International Civitan Club of Metro Birmingham Chapter of Civitan International and also a member of the ACTION Civitan chapter. He was captain of the Moot Court Team and was Dicta Editor at the Virginia Law Weekly. He served as English language press secretary for Vaclav Klaus, Finance Ministry, Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, 1991. He has been active in choral music since grammar school , has represented the firm at Croonin' for Critters and in trivia competition and used to be a competitive fencer in all three weapons, but especially epee.  Honza volunteers at All Saints Episcopal Church, his daughter’s school and at a number of Bar Association and alumni events, but his legal pro bono work is mostly with the Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program “Attorney for the Day” program where he can be found just about every month trying to help pro se claimants through the vagaries of the court system in Downtown Birmingham. Past volunteer work that he found interesting was interviewing veterans for the library of Congress. Since some of his own family was liberated by American troops in World War II and he saw the effects of their post-war departure on his family’s own country and on that of his friends,’  he found this particularly rewarding. He also did some pro bono work for the Birmingham Fencing Club.

BRETT M. BLOOMSTON is the managing partner of the Birmingham law firm, The Bloomston Firm. He concentrates his practice in the areas of criminal defense, white collar crime, DUI, Civil Rights, and general litigation.. Mr. Bloomston has been featured as a commentator on Court TV’s, “In Session” and has appeared on “The Today Show,” “20/20” and “Dateline.”. Brett is recognized as one of Alabama’s Super Lawyers and is rated by Martindale-Hubble as ” AV”, that agencies highest rating, and Birmingham Magazine’s Top Attorneys in Criminal Law and White Collar Crime. Mr. Bloomston is a 1993 Honors B.A. graduate from the University of Alabama and earned his J.D. in 1996 from the University of Alabama School of Law.. Brett is married to the lovely Marian Nelson Bloomston and the couple have five boys together. ranging in age from 25 to 11 years old. Brett loves to ski and travel in his rare, spare time.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care & Hospitalization attorney serving clients in Birmingham and surrounding areas.