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Honora McKeown Gathings is a founding partner in Gathings Law. She hails from St. Petersburg, Florida, where she continued on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University in 1975. She is a 1978 graduate of Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, in Birmingham, Alabama. While in law school, Mrs. Gathings served on the Moot Court Board from 1976-1978 and was also Associate Editor of The American Journal of Trial Advocacy.. Mrs. Gathings has been involved in complex litigation, including business tort litigation, toxic, environmental, and pharmaceutical tort litigation, serious personal injury, consumer class actions, products liability, fraud, and international law. She is a member of the Alabama Bar Association, the Florida Bar Association and the Birmingham Bar Association. She is also a member of the American Association for Justice, where she is a member of the business tort section, the international practice section and the toxic, environmental, and pharmaceutical tort section. Mrs. Gathings has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, various United States District Courts in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, as well as both the Alabama and Florida Supreme Courts.

Jennifer Wales, a Birmingham native, has built a distinguished legal career with a focus on international and domestic law. She graduated from Huntingdon College in 2001 and earned her Juris Doctor from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law in 2004, where she also received a Certificate in International Law. During her studies, Jennifer participated in international law programs in Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Dublin, and contributed to the textbook International Trade and Business: Law, Policy and Ethics with a chapter on European Contract Law and lex mercatoria.. In 2005, Jennifer completed her LL.M. in International Trade and Regulation and European Union Law at Trinity College, Dublin. Returning to Birmingham, she was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 2006 and joined Beddow, Erben, Bowen & Wales, P.A. as of counsel in January 2007.. Jennifer’s professional affiliations include the Alabama State Bar, Birmingham Bar Association, and American Bar Association. Her extensive international education and legal acumen bring a unique perspective to the firm, enabling her to provide exceptional service to clients navigating complex legal challenges.

I am a commpassionate and effective trial attorney with over a decade of litigation experience. I started practicing law in 2013 as a Philadelphia Public Defender handling thousands of criminal misdemeanor and felony cases during my 3.5 years at the office. After Ieaving the Philadelphia PD's Office I accepted a position at the New Jersey Attorney General's Office where I worked in the White Collar Crimes Unit prosecuting a variety of financial and identity theft cases. When I went into private practice at a mid-sized firm in West Chester, Pennsylvania my sole goal was to continue to advocate for my clients and specialize in the areas of practice that I find most compelling. During my tenure at Ciccarelli Law Offices I specialized in defending sex-crime cases and handled a variety high publicity criminal cases as well as family law cases focusing on high net-worth asset division matters and child custody cases.. I relocated to Phoenix, Arizona in 2021 and have been practicing family law exclusively since moving to Arizona. I am a diligent and effective communicator who prides herself most on making sure that her clients understand their options and the potential outcomes and consequences of various court actions.. I believe that first and foremost an attorney is an educator, who needs to educate their client on the process, the risks and the procedures of the Court. I am an honest and blunt person by nature which makes me an effect attorney both with the Court and with my clients. Family Law is a particularly emotional area of practice- there is a lot at stake for my clients. Being truthful with my clients and conservative with our strategy is vital to not only competent representation but getting the outcome that you want.

Hannah was born in Florida and also lived in Louisiana and South Carolina before moving to Arizona in 8th grade. In high school, she was involved in the theater department. Her favorite role was as Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, which is one of her favorite plays. As a kid, she always enjoyed writing her own stories and her own songs.. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Arizona in December of 2017. She attended Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, and graduated in May of 2021.. Her favorite movie is Lord of the Rings, Return of the King and her favorite musical artists are Kelly Clarkson, Olivia Rodrigo, and Faouzia.. Her favorite law/justice-related quote is “Let justice roll on like a river, righteous like a never-ending stream.” (Amos 5:24). It resonates with her because it is not a call to select instances of justice, but rather a system in place where what is right and fair continuously and unstoppably comes to pass.. She is Christian and attends New Valley Church in Chandler. She has taught Sunday school at her church since 2015. Right now, she teaches 2nd-3rd grade. Additionally, she volunteers as a youth leader and co-leads the middle school girl small group, and helps with event planning. She enjoys baking macarons, making homemade pasta and sauces, writing, reading, and watching TV with her mom.. One of her dreams is to become a published author. She likes to write in the young adult fantasy genre. She has written one novel and is working on another.. In her two summers of law school, she interned at Ober, Pekas, and Ronstadt, a disability insurance firm. She hadn’t realized how often people in dire straits were not given the relief they were entitled to, despite doing everything right. It made her passionate about being an advocate for families and individuals who cannot fight for themselves.. She worked one semester in law school for a tribal community, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, in their legal services office. Her main task was writing petitions and motions for family law matters. Interning with the tribal community was interesting to her because they are their own sovereign entity with their own laws and court system.. In her last year of law school, she interned at Legalforce RAPC, a boutique trademark firm. There, she focused on drafting documents related to trademark prosecution, which is when someone tries to get recognition from the federal government for their trademark. The best part of the internship was the amount of creativity involved. She had fun trying to figure out how to argue that wine and beer were not related goods or that marks with similar letters were not pronounced in the minds of consumers in a similar way.

I graduated with honors from the University of North Dakota and Arizona State University School of Law. I was the editor of Devil’s Advocate while at ASU and was President of the Tempe branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. I have been listed in the book Outstanding Young Men in America.. I was admitted to practice before all Arizona Courts in 1973. I have forty-two years of experience in family law and currently limits my practice to family law issues.