Firm partner Win Stuardi and associate Meagan Day won a defense verdict in September 2013 in a medical malpractice case in the Circuit Court of Baldwin County, Alabama.  After a two-week long trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the co-defendant physician and hospital.

Casey Pipes and Chris Conte successfully argued for the
dismissal of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition on the ground that the people
signing the petition as the purported Managers of the company were not actually
the Managers since the Operating Agreement of the Company had never been validly
amended.  The evidence hearing on the Motion to Dismiss was held four days after
the filing of the petition, and the Court dismissed the petition on that date.

Warren Herlong was recently interviewed on local CBS affiliate television station WKRG-TV concerning a condemnation lawsuit brought by Houston-based Plains Southcap against Mobile Area Water & Sewer System to acquire the final tracts of property it needs to finish constructing a pipeline across Mobile County to the Chevron refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.  Helmsing Leach represented a number of land owners defending against Plains Southcap condemnation proceedings and was successful in having the company’s condemnation petition dismissed.  To see Mr. Herlong’s television interview,

Casey Pipes and Warren Herlong successfully argued on behalf of
their land owner clients that a crude oil pipeline company lacked the power to
condemn property in Alabama because it was a limited liability company.   The
clients were defendants in a condemnation action and, at the “right to take”
hearing, the Mobile County Probate Judge agreed that the pipeline company,
because it was a limited liability company, lacked the state law power to
condemn anyone’s property.