Casey Pipes Represents Developer Of Major Comercial Project In Mobile, Alabama

Firm member Casey Pipes represents the developer of a planned Midtown Mobile shopping center, which will be anchored by a Publix grocery store.  Mr. Pipes guided his client through the City of Mobile’s subdivision, PUD and re-zoning land use entitlement process in order to facilitate the project.  This is one of the first major developments in Mobile since the city adopted a comprehensive new plan late last year.  It is also the largest commercial development in Mobile’s Midtown district in many years.

Casey Pipes To Speak at Real Estate Seminar

Firm member Casey Pipes will be among the presenters at the University of Alabama’s CLE Alabama seminar on Real Estate Law, which will take place in Birmingham on Friday, October 14, 2016.  Mr. Pipes will discuss recent developments in eminent domain law, a field in which he has extensive experience.

Warren Herlong To Speak At Property Rights Conference In The Netherlands

Firm member Warren Herlong has been invited to speak at this year’s Brigham Kanner Property Rights Conference to be held October 20-21 at the Peace Palace in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the seat of government of the Netherlands.  This annual conference brings together practicing attorneys and academicians who are active in property rights.  Mr. Herlong has practiced for decades in the fields of eminent domain, condemnation and land valuation litigation, and has presented and published extensively on those subjects.  At the conference in The Hague, he will participate in a panel discussion entitled Recognizing and Protecting Cultural Property which will address issues and problems concerning recognition and protection of cultural property.

Joe Babington, VP of the Trial Attorneys of America, Features At TAA’s Annual Meeting In Chicago

Joe Babington, firm member and Vice President of the Trial Attorneys of America (TAA), was the program director and a speaker at the 45th annual TAA meeting held June 9-10, 2016 in Chicago.  TAA is a national association of leading products liability defense and commercial litigation trial attorneys.  The program included presentations on genomics, 3-D printing,  The Internet of things, techniques and technology for presenting complex evidence, use of emoticons as evidence, and other current issues.  Mr. Babington spoke on the topic “Don’t Be Blinded By Science:  Use And Abuse Of Scientific And Medical Literature To Prove Causation.”  Mr. Babington is the incoming TAA president for 2017–18 and is in charge of the program for the organization’s 2017 TAA meeting.

 

Joe Babington Gives Presentation On Deposing Expert Witnesses

Joe Babington was among the presenters featured during a January 21, 2016 telephone seminar on expert witnesses that was organized by the Defense Research Institute’s Complex Medicine/Experts Group.  Mr. Babington presented a paper titled, “Top 10 Rules for Preparing Your Expert for Deposition.”  (To read Mr. Babington’s paper, please click here.)  DRI is the leading organization of defense attorneys and in-house counsel.  Mr. Babington has been a DRI member since 1992 and is active in the organization’s Drug & Medical Device and Products Liability Sections.

Casey Pipes Named Secretary/Treasuer Of Associate Board of P&CMA

Casey Pipes was recently named Secretary/Treasurer of the Associate Board of the Petroleum and Convenience Marketers of Alabama.  Mr. Pipes has been a member of the Associate Board for the past three years, and is now in line to become the President of the Associate Board.

Casey Pipes To Speak At ALI Eminent Domain Conference in Austin, Texas

Casey Pipes will be one of the featured speakers at the American Law Institute’s annual course, Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation, being held Thursday-Saturday, January 28-30, 2016 in Austin, Texas.   The presentation Mr. Pipes will give, along with Robert Bainbridge, MAI, will focus on highest and best use in the context of takings of convenience stores.

Joe Babington Serves On Faculty Of “Deposition Boot Camp” In Atlanta

Firm member Joseph Babington recently participated as faculty at the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel’s “Deposition Boot Camp” held in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 7–8, 2015.  During this learn-by-doing seminar, Mr. Babington presented on topics including the purposes of depositions, laying foundation for cross at deposition, and deposition technology options, and also worked individually with four of the 24 students attending the Boot Camp on the basics of deposing a fact witness, a plaintiff, and an expert witness. The Boot Camp was sponsored by the FDCC, the nation’s premier defense counsel group, of which Mr. Babington is a member and for which he serves as assistant chair of the drug and medical device subcommittee.

 

Patrick Finnegan Gives Presentation On E-Discovery

Firm member Patrick Finnegan served on the faculty for an National Business Institute seminar titled, “Everything You Don’t Know About E-Discovery (But Wish You Did),” which was held in Mobile on December 10th.  Mr. Finnegan gave two presentations at the seminar.  One focused on federal and Alabama case law and rules of procedure concerning e-discovery, including the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure relating to e-discovery that became effective earlier this month.  To read the paper that Mr. Finnegan prepared for this presentation, please click here.  Mr. Finnegan also gave a presentation titled, “Practical Tech Advice for the Non-Techy Attorney,” in which he addressed the technical aspects of preserving, collecting, reviewing and producing electronically stored information.

Casey Pipes Coauthors Article Concerning Overhaul Of Alabama’s Restrictive Covenant Act

Casey Pipes is coauthor of an article appearing in the November 2015 issue of the Alabama Lawyer titled, “Alabama Enacts Major Revisions of Alabama Code 8-1-1.”  Mr. Pipes was a member of a committee convened by the Alabama Law Institute in 2011 to rewrite Section 8-1-1, Alabama’s Restrictive Covenant Act, a notoriously vague statute that had created much confusion in this area of law.  The committee, which was composed of judges, law professors and leading practitioners, completed a proposed replacement for the Act in late 2013, which was then sponsored as a bill in both houses of the Alabama Legislature.  After working its way through the legislative process, the bill was signed into law by the governor on June 11, 2015.  It will take effect on January 1, 2016.  Mr. Pipes’ coauthors on the Alabama Lawyer article are Will Hill Tankersley, Richard J.R. Raleigh, Jr., and Adam K. Israel.