Top Litigation Lawyers in ZIP 36604 | 2 available

Firm: Tobias & Comer Law

1203 Dauphin Street , Mobile , Alabama 36604

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Automobile Accidents, Insurance , Personal Injury, Products Liability, Slip and Fall, Trucking Accidents, Workers Compensation, Wrongful Death, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

More than 30 years ago, he began his law career serving with the Florida Attorney General in Tallahassee, Fla. In 1989, he returned to his hometown of Mobile, Ala. to begin practicing law with an insurance defense firm. Since 1995, Desi’s practice has focused exclusively on the representation of injured victims. During his career, he has tried more than 100 civil bench and jury trials.. A graduate of McGill-Toolen High School, Desi attended Washington and Lee University prior to The University of Alabama. He has served on the McGill-Toolen Catholic High School Advisory Board and the St. Mary School Advisory Board.. Desi was formerly on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Association for Justice and currently is on the Executive Committee of the Mobile Bar Association. He is the current chairman of the Mobile Bar Association Civil Practice Committee for State and County courts. Desi is a frequent lecturer at CLE seminars and has written on numerous litigation-related topics.. Desi is rated AV Preeminent® by his peers on Martindale-Hubbell, the highest peer rating standard. He has also been selected to the 2019 - 2020, 2022 Mid-South Super Lawyers list, an exclusive list, recognizing no more than five percent of attorneys.. Desi has many successful verdicts and settlements including a $12.3 million settlement for a maritime injury case, a $12 million bench verdict for an industrial accident, and a $3.4 million award for a man blinded in a crane accident.

Firm: Cunningham Bounds, LLC

1601 Dauphin Street , Mobile , Alabama 36604

Practice Areas: Litigation

Ms. Tufts practices in the areas of products liability, industrial accidents, automobile and trucking accidents, premises liability, medical malpractice and fraud. She has tried numerous cases in Alabama that resulted in successful plaintiff’s verdicts. A native of Alabama and a Truman Scholarship recipient, Ms. Tufts graduated summa cum laude from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2004. She earned her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, in 2008 from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and graduated in the top 5% of her class.. Ms. Tufts is committed to giving back to the communities in which she works and lives. She received the 2012 Distinguished Service Award from the South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program (“SAVLP”), which recognized her both for providing pro bono legal representation to members of the community and for helping to raise money for the SAVLP. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform, Inc. In addition, Ms. Tufts is a graduate of the 2010 Alabama Leadership Initiative ("ALI"), a program through which emerging leaders from across the state explore various issues associated with education, economic development and government. During law school, Ms. Tufts volunteered nearly 200 hours at the Neighborhood Legal Services Program in Washington, D.C., an organization that represents those who cannot afford legal counsel. Before going to law school, she served as Executive Director of Impact: An Alabama Student Service Initiative, a statewide nonprofit organization that manages college preparatory, healthcare, and financial literacy programs designed to enable student volunteers to be part of structural and systemic change in Alabama.