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.

 

Monica E. Soderlund

Associate

 

Practice Areas:  Appellate, Insurance, Litigation

Law School: University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 2008, cum laude

Undergraduate: Johns Hopkins University, B.A. in English, 2005.

While attending law school at the University of Alabama, Monica served as the Managing Editor for the Law & Psychology Review, Secretary for the Bench & Bar Legal Honor Society, Associate Justice for the Honor Court, and Member-at-Large for the Public Interest Institute.  She was a member of the John A. Campbell Moot Court Board and Finalist in the 2007 Campbell Moot Court Competition.  She was also a member of the Jessup International Moot Court Team, which garnered the title of Southeast Super Regional Team Finalist and ranked 28th at the 2008 International Final Rounds.  She received the Thomas Goode Jones Scholarship, Jerome A. Hoffman Student Leadership Award, and the Dean’s Community Service Award.  Monica currently serves as secretary of the Mobile Bar Association Women Lawyer’s section.

Monica was admitted to the Alabama Bar in September of 2008.  She is also certified to practice before the U.S. District Courts of Alabama in the Southern, Middle, and Northern Districts.

Publications:
Protecting Biodiversity for Medicinal Purposes, THE ENLAW, Vol. 14, No. 2

The Role of News Media in Shaping and Transforming the Public Perception of         Mexican Immigration and the Laws Involved, 31 LAW & PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW 167

E-mail: Monica.Soderlund@lpclaw.com

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Direct Dial: 251-441-8231
 
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