Announcements

Lyons, Pipes & Cook is pleased to announce that six of its attorneys have been selected for inclusion on the Alabama Super Lawyers 2010 list.

Tom Garth
Tax

Teeto Graham
Transportation/Maritime

Caroline McCarthy
Insurance Coverage
 
Jay Minus
Employment & Labor

William Shreve
Appellate

Cooper Thurber
Personal Injury Defense

Lyons, Pipes & Cook is pleased to announce that seven of its attorneys have been selected for the Super Lawyers - Rising Star category.  Rising Stars name the state’s top up-and-coming attorneys.

Ashley Swink
General Litigation

Britten Britt
Estate Planning & Probate

Todd Denison
Tax

Richard Johnson
Construction Litigation

Lara Keahey
Civil Litigation Defense

Day Peake
Employment & Labor

Bradley Sanders
Real Estate

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:  Probate and Estate Planning, Business and Tax Planning, Trusts and Estates.

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 LLM 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 serves on the executive committee of the Estate Planning Council of Mobile, as co-chair of the Mercy Medical Foundation, and as a member of the Thomas Hospital Foundation.  Alabama Super Lawyers (2010) named Britten as a Rising Star in the practice area of Estate Planning & Probate.

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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