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I am a lifelong resident of Colbert County and a graduate of the Muscle Shoals school system. I live in Tuscumbia with my wife, daughter, and dog. When not practicing law, I enjoy spending time with family, hiking, baseball (Atlanta Braves), football (Roll Tide!), and running.. I am more than proud to represent my friends and neighbors in Colbert, Lauderdale, and Franklin Counties.

Taylor E. Hubbard, a transplant from Northern California’s Bay Area, obtained his bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and his juris doctorate from Western State College of Law in Southern California. Mr. Hubbard is admitted to California State Bar and has been involved in civil litigation since 2012. Prior to getting involved in litigation, Mr. Hubbard worked for several years in the real estate lending services industry processing non-judicial foreclosures, supporting property management services, and handling title curative related issues. Currently, Mr. Hubbard's practice focuses primarily on real estate and business litigation, including affirmative and defensive Quiet Title litigation, title curative matters, title disputes, title fraud, and disputes between homeowners and their HOA's. Mr. Hubbard regularly practices in the state and federal courts throughout California.

John Murphy focuses his practice on eminent domain, inverse condemnation and other complex real estate trials. He represents a wide variety of public agencies, corporations, and landowners.. Mr. Murphy and his firm have earned its clients over $275 Million in eminent domain awards over the past six years. His firm has won arguably the highest condemnation awards in the State in each of the past four years. Its 2017 judgment against the County of San Bernardino totals $48 Million.. He has been chosen repeatedly for inclusion in the definitive legal directory, Best Lawyers in America - - most recently for 2017 - - in two practice areas: eminent domain law and real estate law.  From 2006 – 2017, the Los Angeles Times has featured Mr. Murphy in its articles, “Southern California’s Best Lawyers.”  Los Angeles magazine has listed him repeatedly in Southern California Super Lawyers. Orange Coast magazine named him in its September, 2007 – 2015 features, “Top Attorneys in Orange County.”. Best Lawyers in America, the nation’s oldest and most respected legal peer-review publication, honored Mr. Murphy in 2012 as its “Orange County Litigation – Real Estate Lawyer of The Year.”  Mr. Murphy was also named one of the “Top 50 in Orange County” lawyers for 2012 by Southern California’s Super Lawyers magazine.. Mr. Murphy has served as lead trial counsel in numerous significant, successful jury trials. He speaks regularly on eminent domain issues and his cases have garnered significant press coverage. He has been the subject of three Los Angeles Daily Journal profiles and has been featured on the cover of both Verdicts and Settlements and the Daily Journal. John also won one of the largest jury verdicts ($14.6 million) ever obtained in Marin County Superior Court.. In 2006, Mr. Murphy was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Association.  He has been consistently accorded an “AV-Preeminent” rating by Martindale Hubbell.. In 2017, the State Bar of California’s Real Property Section awarded Mr. Murphy a seat on its executive committee.. Mr. Murphy has managed, or played a lead role in, several major public agency acquisition projects. These agencies include:. Mr. Murphy spoke on trial tactics in eminent domain at the American Law Institute – Continuing Legal Education (ALI-CLE) 34th Annual Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in San Diego in 2017.  He has also spoken at the January, 2006 23rd Annual ALI-ABA National Eminent Domain Conference in San Diego; the 2009, 26th ALI-ABA National Eminent Domain Conference in Miami, Florida; the 2012, 29th ALI-ABA Eminent Domain Conference in San Diego; and the 2015, 32nd Annual National Eminent Domain Conference in San Francisco.. He serves as Co-Chairman of the annual CLE International Southern California seminar on eminent domain. He has spoken frequently at Appraisal Institute seminars, and authored an article for the Appraisal Journal.. Over the past ten years, Mr. Murphy has spoken at over 15 International Right of Way Association seminars and programs. Most recently, he spoke at the IRWA’s 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Annual International Education Conferences in Indianapolis, Calgary, Atlanta, Seattle, West Virginia, and Hartford, Connecticut.. Mr. Murphy has authored a chapter on condemnation for the California Continuing Education of the Bar; treatise, “Ground Lease Practice,” and he also authored a chapter of the American Bar Association text book on expert witnesses, “Litigators on Experts.”. Mr. Murphy is the former president of Chapter 67 of the International Right of Way Association (2000) and former member of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Bar Foundation. He is a past President of the Warren J. Ferguson Chapter of the American Inns of Court and has served on the Board of Visitors of the Chapman University Law School. He is also a member of Lambda Alpha, and an affiliate member of the Appraisal Institute.. Mr. Murphy received his J.D. from the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law in 1980; and his B.A., with honors, from the University of California, Riverside in 1976.

Cory Birkhauser is an associate business attorney with the Orange County, California law firm of Brown and Streza, LLP.  His practice centers on representing investors and issuers in corporate transactions, including seed stage, venture capital, venture debt and private equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate representative matters.  Cory regularly advises entrepreneurs, companies, and their management on a broad range of corporate governance responsibilities, equity incentive plans and arrangements, employment matters, intellectual property issues, regulatory compliance, and commercial transactions.  He also has experience in the acquisition and disposition of real estate, fund formation and structuring and drafting complex commercial agreements, such as joint venture, strategic alliance and technology license agreements across various industries.. Prior to joining Brown and Streza, Cory was a Senior Staff Accountant with a boutique accounting firm, where he advised clients on the tax implications of partnership and corporate mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, restructurings, dispositions, and distressed assets/debt within consumer products, financial services, real estate, and retail industries.  He also has personal start-up experience building his own company and sharing in the joys and struggles of the entrepreneurs he now represents.. Cory earned his LL.M. in taxation from Loyola University and his Juris Doctor from The John Marshall University in Chicago.  He also has a Bachelors degree in mathematics/economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.. When he’s not at work, Cory can usually be found spending time with his wife, Jennifer, and three kids, Braden, Connor and Hudson.  He also enjoys competing in marathons and half-Ironman competitions.