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Practice areas include: Post-Conviction, Criminal Appeals, and Criminal Defense.. Gabrielle “Gabby” Humber is originally from Alexander City, Alabama. She graduated from Auburn University magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in technical english and a bachelor’s degree in political science with a minor in human development and family studies. She then earned her Juris Doctorate from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, graduating in the top 20% of her class and scoring in the 98th percentile on the Uniform Bar Exam. While in law school, she earned the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Criminal Procedure II and Cybercrime and was an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Trial Advocacy. Gabby has been at Maxwell & Tillman since August 2020 in the Post Conviction Department and specializes in Rule 32 Petitions, trial transcript review, parole representation, and resentencing petitions.

My name is J.D. Lloyd and I help folks convicted of crimes continue their fight for justice after the trial. Whether it's through filing an appeal or post-conviction petition for relief, I make sure my clients know there's still hope after the trial.

My legal concentration is in appellate and commercial litigation in both state and federal courts.. Before joining Lippitt O’Keefe, I served as a law clerk intern for the Honorable Richard F. Suhrheinrich, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. I later served as a law clerk for the Honorable Marilyn J. Kelly, Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court, 1999 to 2000, and then in 2000, I served as a pre-hearing attorney for the Michigan Court of Appeals.. In 2010, I was appointed to serve through 2012 on the Michigan Supreme Court Committee on Model Civil Jury Instructions.. In addition to my love of the law, I also play music.  I have been playing the piano for over 30 years and I have been playing professionally since I was 14 years old.  In 2002, I won third prize in a Jerry Lee Lewis sound alike competition in Memphis, TN and I love to play ragtime and boogie-woogie piano.

Kendall A. Lee was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 2015. She received a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2012, and a J.D. degree from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in 2015. In law school, Ms. Lee served as a member of the Cumberland National Trial Team and the Student Bar Association. She was also a recipient of the “Women’s Section of the Birmingham Bar Award” and the “Alabama Chapter of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) Serve & Protect the Public Award” in 2015.. Ms. Lee is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She has successfully handled appeals in the Supreme Court of Alabama and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

I am an experienced employment, appellate, and litgation attorney in the Birmingham, Alabama, area. I joined Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt in 1994. My labor-and-employment law work includes employment litigation, discrimination, contracts, drug-free workplaces, drug testing, litigation prevention, employee policies/handbooks, and employee benefits/ERISA. I am also experienced in commercial litigation, insurance litigation, negligence/injury cases, fraud/misrepresentation cases, product-liability cases, arbitration, and other methods of alternative dispute resolution. I have been the attorney of record in more than eighty appellate cases and more than fifty reported appellate decisions. My practice in the area of constitutional law includes representing governments in civil-rights cases, as well as free-speech, voting/elections, and religion issues.  I have also worked on cases concerning the powers of local governmental entities. I was directly involved in the election-related disputes concerning races for Sheriff of Jefferson County, Alabama, a Jefferson County Circuit Court judge, and the 1994 race for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. My personal interests include computers, technology, college football, college basketball, and church activities, including teaching children’s Sunday school. I am a volunteer court appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children in the Jefferson County Family Court through CASA of Jefferson County and the Alabama CASA Network. I especially enjoy family activities with my wife and children.

I am an appellate attorney, trial lawyer, law practice management consultant, freelance writer, husband, and father. My law practice website is located at , where I provide information about issues related to Alabama law. For several years I was the Law Practice Management Guide for (), which is owned by the New York Times Company. I also write for a variety of other websites and publications, and I have published articles in publications produced by the Alabama State Bar, the Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, and the American Bar Association. However, most of my time is devoted to the practice of appellate law in Alabama.

Ashley Crank's long-fueled desire to help others drove her to attend law school where she served as Editor-in-Chief for the American Journal of Trial Advocacy, the nation's oldest law review dedicated exclusively to the art of trial advocacy.. Ashley is a client-driven attorney committed to offering her clients the best representation by utilizing effective and efficient litigation strategies and by always utilizing extreme attention to detail. She represents individuals and businesses in a variety of civil matters in state and federal courts. Her practice focuses on premises liability and product liability litigation, insurance coverage, business disputes, and other tort and breach-of-contract disputes.. In addition to her legal work, Ashley serves on the Board of Trustees for the Birmingham Legal Aid Society, the editorial board for the Birmingham Bar Association, and as a coach to the Justice Richard L. Jones National Moot Court Team at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law.

As a college trumpet player, Jonathan never had trouble picking which band he would play in, he simply joined them all. He could be found among the marching band, wind ensemble, chamber orchestra, and jazz band, usually as the leader or principal trumpet in each. He has put the same philosophy into practice as a lawyer.. Jonathan spends most of his time representing a diverse set of clients, including manufacturers and distributors of machinery, appliances, consumer electronics, and medical devices, as well as retailers, mortgage servicers, telecommunications providers, and energy companies.  In the financial services industry, Jonathan has also represented clients in a variety of rarely-seen proceedings initiated by the judiciary, attorneys general, or other government bodies.