Firm: Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, LLP
Practice Areas: Class Action
I joined Hare Wynn in 2015 and work primarily in the areas of class action and mass tort litigation. Recently, along with several other Hare Wynn lawyers and the Attorney General’s offices of Montana and Alaska, I negotiated the largest consumer protection settlement related to drug misbranding in both Montana and Alaska. These settlements resulted in a payout of $15.25 million to the state of Alaska and $16.7 million to the state of Montana. I was also part of a team of Hare Wynn lawyers who secured a $310 million settlement on behalf of a Class of investors who had been defrauded in the settlement of a prior class action.
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Firm: Cunningham Bounds
Practice Areas: Class Action
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Firm: Heninger Garrison Davis, LLC
Practice Areas: Class Action
Taylor Bartlett represents clients in complex litigation involving significant damages claims at both the trial and appellate levels. He has extensive experience in consumer class actions and pharmaceutical mass tort litigation. Since joining the firm in 2011, Taylor has successfully represented over 5,000 individuals and businesses throughout the United States. Taylor has also been appointed class counsel on multiple consumer class action lawsuits that resulted in settlements to the classes of over $25 million. Through his work, he has gained extensive knowledge of the specific rights of individuals and classes as prescribed by the US Constitution. Taylor understands that the key to resolving complex cases is organization, diligence, and action.. After obtaining his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University in 2007, he received his J.D. cum laude from Cumberland School of Law in 2010. While at Cumberland, Taylor served as Associate Editor of the Cumberland Law Review, was selected as a Judge Abraham Caruthers Teaching Fellow, and was elected Senior Honor Court Justice. After law school, Taylor attended King’s College London from where he received a Masters of Law. While in London he was selected for the KCL International Arbitration Moot Court Team and honed his trial advocacy skills while travelling internationally for oral arguments. These skills are now applied in his legal practice as he litigates across the country. He has presented argument in the state and federal courts of Alabama, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, and Maryland. He lectures at attorney conferences, where he has made presentations on consumer class actions as well as best practices for digital depositions.. Taylor was admitted as a member to the Alabama Bar in 2010. He is also admitted to practice law in New York, New Jersey, and Georgia. Taylor is a member of the Birmingham Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, and the Alabama Association for Justice. Taylor has been named as a Mid-South Super Lawyer Rising Star each year since 2014. In 2017 he was recognized as a Top Attorney by his peers in Birmingham Magazine.
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Firm: Hare Wynn Newell & Newton, LLP
Practice Areas: Class Action
Established trial attorney Scott A. Powell has been with Hare Wynn since 1986. Throughout his extensive career, he has helped clients across the United States in everything from serious personal injury cases to commercial litigation to class actions and more. His outstanding representation both in and out of the courtroom has earned him great recognition from multiple prestigious publications and national legal organizations, including being selected as Benchmark Litigation's "Alabama Litigator of the Year" in 2013. Some of his most notable work includes being appointed co-lead plaintiff's counsel for the multi-district litigation against Syngenta on behalf of American corn farmers.
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Practice Areas: Class Action
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Firm: Hill Hill Carter Franco Cole & Black
Practice Areas: Class Action
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Practice Areas: Class Action
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Firm: Heninger Garrison Davis, LLC
Practice Areas: Class Action
Mark is an Alabama native who has lived all over the southeast. In 2007, Mark graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in History from North Carolina State University, where his senior thesis analyzed the consistent failure of Christianity to find a foothold in Japan, and compared Christianity’s failure in Japan with the success it was able to sustain in South Korea. Following his stint in North Carolina, Mark returned to Alabama where he graduated cum laude from the University of Alabama School of Law in 2010. During his time in law school he was active on the Alabama Law Review as a Notes Editor. Mark completed his formal education in 2011 when he earned his LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. His Master’s Thesis examined the United States corporate tax code and explored methods to simplify and reform it in order to make it easier to understand and comply with while, at the same time, increasing the amount of corporate tax revenues collected by the Treasury.
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Firm: Beasley Allen Law Firm
Practice Areas: Class Action
Makesha "Kesha" Nowell was born in Georgia and lived in many different places throughout her childhood as the daughter of a member of the United States Air Force. Now she lives and practices law in Montgomery, Alabama.. Kesha received her Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Troy State University in Dothan, and her J.D., from Thomas Goode Jones School of Law at Faulkner University, Montgomery, Alabama, in 2008. She was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 2008.. As a member of the Alabama State Bar, Kesha is admitted to the United States District Court for the Middle Districts of Alabama. She has practiced in the State of Alabama since her admission in 2008.. From 2008 to 2012, she was a staff attorney for Legal Services where she practiced the areas of Housing Law, Consumer Protection, and Bankruptcy. Ms. Nowell joined Stewart, Littell Courson, & Tompkins in 2012, and her primary area of practice is Consumer Bankruptcy and Social Security.. For a free consultation with Kesha Nowell, call toll-free , or email her directly, at
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Firm: White Arnold & Dowd P.C.
Practice Areas: Class Action
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Practice Areas: Class Action
Leslie began working at Beasley Allen Law Firm in May 2012 as a law clerk in our Consumer Fraud Section. She is currently an attorney in the same section, working on class actions, antitrust issues and whistleblower claims, and had previously worked in our Toxic Torts Section, handling cases related to the BP Oil Spill litigation.. Professional Associations. Leslie is a member of the Alabama State Bar; Alabama State Bar Young Lawyers Section, where she is on the Executive Committee; Hugh Maddox Chapter of American Inns of Court; Alabama Association for Justice, where she is part of the Emerging Leaders and co-chairs the Entertainment Committee; American Association for Justice; Montgomery County Bar Association; and the Montgomery Volunteer Lawyers Program. Most recently, Leslie became a fellow of the Pound Institute, a national legal “think tank” dedicated to ensuring access to justice for ordinary citizens.. In addition, she is a member of The National Advocates - Top 40 Under 40 and received the American Association for Justice's 2015-2016 New Lawyer's Division of Excellence Award. She is also a member of the Montgomery Lion’s Club, Faulkner Leadership Circle and the Auburn Alumni Association.. Education. Leslie attended Auburn University, graduating cum laude with her B.A. in 2009. She earned her J.D., graduating magna cum laude, from Faulkner University's Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in 2013. During law school, she was a Knabe Scholar, won four Best Paper awards and was named 2013 Advocate of the Year. She was also a Champion at the National Appellate Advocacy Competition Regionals, second place Best Advocate at the August A. Rendigs Competition and won Best Brief at the Mercer Legal Ethics Competition. She was a Student Bar Association senator for two years, a member of the Board of Advocates Executive Council and a Jones School of Law Student Ambassador.. During law school, Leslie clerked with Justice Greg Shaw of the Supreme Court of Alabama and the Alabama Attorney General’s Office. She also worked with Circuit Judge Christopher Hughes for the 37th Judicial District of Alabama and as a research assistant at Jones School of Law.. Background. Raised in Scottsboro, Alabama, Leslie now lives in Montgomery, Alabama, with her two dogs, Toby and Tucker. She is a member of Church of the Highlands.
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Firm: Porterfield, Harper, Mills, Motlow, & Ireland
Practice Areas: Class Action
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Firm: Wallace Jordan Ratliff & Brandt, LLC
Practice Areas: Class Action
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Firm: Wiggins Childs Quinn & Pantazis, LLC
Practice Areas: Class Action
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Practice Areas: Class Action
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Practice Areas: Class Action
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Firm: Burr & Forman LLP
Practice Areas: Class Action
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Firm: Burr & Forman LLP
Practice Areas: Class Action
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Firm: Burr & Forman LLP
Practice Areas: Class Action
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Firm: Ingram Law Firm
Practice Areas: Class Action
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