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.
Practice Areas:Taxation, Corporate and Estate Tax, Estate Planning, Qualified Retirement Plan, Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Foreign Tax Planning, Securities, and 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, Alabama Bar Institute for Continuing Legal Education; former Board Member and President (2002) of the Alabama Federal Tax Clinic, The Best Lawyers in America 1993-2010 (Tax Law, Employee Benefits Law, Non-Profit Charities) and Alabama Super Lawyers (2009). 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
