Announcements

Lyons, Pipes & Cook is pleased to announce Monica E. Soderlund was elected secretary of the MBA Women Lawyer’s section for 2010.

Lyons, Pipes & Cook is pleased to announce that Britten L. Britt has been recognized as one of the Bay area’s “40 Under 40” in Mobile Bay Monthly magazine.  This award  recognizes 40 of the top local individuals under the age of 40 “who demonstrate leadership, professional excellence and a commitment to the Bay area community”.

A. Kelly Sessoms, in the firm’s Pascagoula office, has been included in the 2009 Mid-South Super Lawyers for Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi.

Allen “Teeto” Graham was recently elected Treasurer of the Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute.

Long time LPC employee Amy Kleinschrodt, who is a member of Buccaneer Yacht Club in Mobile, and her crew of Sara Hall and Ashley Hall won the Mrs. Charles Francis Adams Trophy and gold medals for First Place in the 2009 U.S. Women’s Sailing Championship. Amy and her crew will defend their title on Lake Michigan in 2010.

Lyons, Pipes & Cook is pleased to announce that eight attorneys from our firm have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers®  in America 2010:

Cooper Thurber
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Insurance Law
Product Liability Litigation

Marion Quina
Maritime Law

Tom Garth
*Listed as one of a distinguished group of attorneys who have now been listed in Best Lawyers® for ten years or longer.
Employee Benefits Law
Non-Profit/Charities Law
Tax Law
Trusts and Estates

Walter Cook
Commercial Litigation
Construction Law

Caroline McCarthy
Insurance Law

William Shreve
Appellate Law
Insurance Law

Teeto Graham
Maritime Law

Lyons, Pipes & Cook is pleased to announce A. Kelly Sessoms has been elected to a 3 year term as District 3 Director for the Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association and elected Vice-President of the Russell-Blass-Walker American Inn of Court for 2009.

 
Britten L. Britt
Partner

 

Practice Areas: Taxation, Probate and Estate Planning, Business and Tax Planning, Trust and Estates, and Charitable Organizations.

Britten was born in Fairhope, Alabama and graduated from Auburn University with a B.S. degree, cum laude, in 1997. In 2001, she obtained her M.B.A. from Samford University and J.D. from Cumberland School of Law. Britten received her LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University School of Law in 2002.

Britten was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 2001, the Alabama Bar in 2002 and the Florida Bar in 2005. She is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama, as well as the U.S. Tax Court.

Britten’s area of practice focuses primarily in the areas of probate and estate planning, business and tax planning and trusts and estates. She also handles corporate transactions, family limited partnerships, limited liability companies, corporate tax matters, charitable foundations and assists in the preparation of fiduciary estate tax returns.

Britten is a member of the American Bar Association, the Alabama Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association, the Florida Bar Association and the Mobile County and Baldwin County Bar Associations. She also is a member of the executive committee of the Estate Planning Council of Mobile, and the Mercy Medical Board of Trustees, and the Thomas Hospital Foundation.

Britten currently resides on the Eastern Shore with her husband, Brian Britt, and daughter, Maggie.

E-mail: Britten.Britt@lpclaw.com

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Direct Dial: 251-441-8268

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