Helmsing, Leach, Herlong, Newman & Rouse, P.C. > Attorneys

Phone: (251) 432-5521
Fax: (251) 432-0633
Email: jbn@helmsinglaw.com

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Litigation:Personal Injury and Property Damage

James B. Newman

James B. Newman was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1948. He grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and attended Vanderbilt University where he graduated in 1970 with a B.A. degree. Following college, he spent three years in the U.S. Navy as a Lieutenant Junior Grade. He entered Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama where he received his law degree with high honors in 1976. Following his graduation from law school, he was admitted to the Bar of the State of Alabama and became a law clerk to U.S. District Judge William Brevard Hand. He has been in private practice in Mobile, Alabama, since finishing his clerkship with Judge Hand.

While in law school, Mr. Newman served on the staff of the Cumberland Law Review and, during his last year in law school, was the Managing Editor of the Law Review. He was inducted into Curia Honoris and Phi Kappa Phi, societies honoring academic achievement, and graduated magna cum laude.

As a practicing Attorney, Mr. Newman has held memberships in the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association and the Defense Research Institute. He is a member of the Mobile Bar Association, the Alabama State Bar, the American Bar Association and has served as President of the Young Lawyers' Section of the Mobile Bar Association. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association and is a past president of the Litigation Section of the Alabama State Bar. Mr. Newman is a member of the Paul W. Brock chapter of the American Inns of Court, and he is listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" and "Super Lawyers" publications. He served as Chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast from 1998 to 2005. Mr. Newman is a frequent speaker and faculty member at continuing legal education programs and seminars.

Mr. Newman is admitted to practice before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, the United States District Courts for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Alabama, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, and all courts of the State of Alabama, including the Alabama Supreme Court.