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.

 

Thomas F. Garth
Partner

 

Practice Areas: Taxation, Corporate and Estate Tax, Estate Planning, Qualified Retirement Plan, Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Foreign Tax Planning, Securities, Healthcare

Tom is a member of the Management Committee of the firm.  Born in Huntsville, Alabama, Tom has been practicing law with LPC since graduating from law school.  He is the senior tax lawyer in the firm and has practiced before Probate Courts, State Courts, U. S. District Courts, and Tax Court.

Tom graduated from University of Virginia with a B.A. in Economics in 1970 and served as an officer aboard the U.S.S. Lexington in 1970-71.  He then obtained his J.D. degree from Cumberland Law School in 1974 and received his LLM in taxation from New York University in 1975.  He is a member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity.  He was an Alabama Bar Examiner in Wills, Trusts and Estates and Federal Income Taxation from 1981-1985; President of the Mobile Estate Planning Council from 1991-1992; Member of the Annual Tax Institute and the Alabama Bar Institute for Continuing Legal Education; former Board Member and President (2002) of the Alabama Federal Tax Clinic; listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Tax Law, Employee Benefits Law, Non-Profit Charities) and Alabama Super Lawyers (2010).  He is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.  His practice focuses on estate planning; personal, estate and corporate tax issues; real estate transactions including tax free exchanges; qualified deferred compensation plans including ESOPS; and foreign tax planning.

Tom is a former Junior Warden and member of the Vestry at Christ Episcopal Church Cathedral.  He is married to the former Susan Price of Evergreen, Alabama and they have four children.

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E-mail: Tom.Garth@lpclaw.com

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Direct Dial: 251-441-8281

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