James B. Newman
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Representation of businesses and individuals in disputes, litigation, trials and appeals in state and federal courts for over thirty years.
EDUCATION
Vanderbilt University; Cumberland School of Law (J.D. 1976) Magna cum laude
BAR ADMISSIONS
United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits; United States District Courts for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Alabama; all courts of the State of Alabama, including the Alabama Supreme Court.
MARTINDALE-HUBBELL RATING
AV Preeminent
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
Best Lawyers in America
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Banking Finance
- Litigation – Construction
- Litigation – Labor & Employment
Super Lawyers
Benchmark Litigation
CLERKSHIP
Law clerk to Judge William Brevard Hand, United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & AFFILIATIONS
Past president of the Litigation Section of the Alabama State Bar
Member of the Board of Directors of the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
Member of the Paul W. Brock Chapter of the American Inns of Court
Past Chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast
Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
Defense Research Institute
Mobile Bar Association
Alabama State Bar
American Bar Association
Past President of the Young Lawyers’ Section of the Mobile Bar Association
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
Managing Editor, Cumberland Law Review
Curia Honoris
Phi Kappa Phi
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wilmer Hall, a home for children
Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mobile Mental Health Center
Chairman of the Cawthon Foundation, a charitable foundation
SIGNIFICANT CASES
Colony Ins. Co. v. Alabama Heat Exchangers, Inc., 23 So. 2d 677 (Ala. Civ. App. 2009)
Clanton v. Inter.Net Global, LLC, 435 F.3d 1319 (11th Cir. 2006)
American Commercial Barge Line Company, et al., v. Roush, 2000 WL 1563001 (Ala. 2001)
Ex Parte American National Property and Casualty Company, 742 So. 2d 1212 (Ala. 1999)
Grantham v. First Union Home Equity Bank, 685 So. 2d 748 (Ala. Civ. App. 1996)
Daughtery v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York, 649 So. 2d 857 (Ala. 1996)
