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.

 
Representative Clients

 

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY: Joe Bullard Automotive Companies; Greater Mobile Chrysler Plymouth Jeep; Hertz Corporation; National Car Rental

AVIATION:Teledyne Continental Motors, Inc.; Teledyne Technologies Inc.

BANKING/FINANCE: DailyAccess Corporation; Merchants & Marine Bank; NCMIC Group; Portfolio Financial Servicing, Inc.; Regions Bank

CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS: The Florence Foundation

CHEMICAL/TECHNOLOGY: Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

CONSTRUCTION/ENGINEERING: General Insulation, Inc.; Gulf Hauling & Construction Co.; Hosea O. Weaver and Son; Jordan Pile Driving, Inc.; L&M Welding Supply, Inc.; M.C. Williams Contracting Co., Inc.; Master Insulation, Inc.; MWH/Khafra Joint Venture; R.J. Baggett, Inc.; TrustMark Builders, Inc.; Sumlin & Sons, Inc.; Ben M. Radcliff Contractor, Inc.

ENTERTAINMENT: Kingvision Pay-Per-View

INSURANCE: ACE Group; AESIC; AFLAC; Alaska National Insurance Co.; Allianz; American Equity Insurance Co.; American Fidelity Assurance Company;  American Reliable Insurance Co.; Axis Insurance Company; Benefit Choices, Inc.; Chubb Group of Insurance Companies; Colony Insurance Agency, Inc.; Constitution States Services; Crawford & Company; Crum & Forster; Employer’s Claim Management; Executive Risk Indemnity; Farmers Insurance; Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc.; Genesis Underwriting Management Co.; Great American Insurance Co.; Gulf Insurance Co.; Hartford Insurance Co.; Indiana Lumbermans Mutual Insurance Company; Kemper Insurance Co.; McLarens Toplis North American, Inc.; Motorist Mutual Insurance Company; Motors Insurance Corp.; National Fire & Marine Insurance Co.; National Security Group, Inc. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company; Nautilus Insurance Company; Omni Insurance Group, Inc.; Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company; Pilot Catastrophe Services, Inc.; Principal Life Insurance Co.; Prudential Property and Casualty Insurance; Quality Casualty Insurance Co., Inc.; Riverstone Claims Management; Royal & SunAlliance; Scottsdale Insurance Company; Secura Insurance Co.; Sedgwick CMS, Inc.; Seibels Bruce Group, Inc.; Specialty Claims Management; Titan Indemnity Company; Torchmark Corp.; Travelers Insurance; Wausau Insurance Companies; Western Heritage Insurance Companies

MANUFACTURING & TEXTILES: Abitibi Consolidated, Inc.; Acordis Cellulosic Fibers, Inc.; Alabama River Newsprint; BASF Corp.; Abbott Vascular Solutions, Inc.; Lenzing Fibers, Inc.;Magnatrax Corp.; Martin Marietta Materials; Samsonite Corporation

MARITIME: Kerr Norton Strachan Agency; Chevron U.S.A., Inc.; El Paso Energy Corp.; Graham Gulf, Inc.; Martin Marietta Materials

MEDICAL/PHYSICIANS: Cancer Surgery of Mobile; Center for Reproductive Medicine; Kindred Healthcare; Mobile Bay OB/GYN, P.C.; Mobile OB-GYN, P.C.; Mobile Surgery Clinics, P.C.; Nephrology Associates of Mobile; Saad’s Healthcare Services; Urology Associates; Sea Breeze Health Care Center, Inc.; The Doctor’s Group; Johns Hopkins University

NATURAL RESOURCES: Atlantic Richfield Co.; Blossman Gas, Inc.; Chevron U.S.A., Inc.; El Paso Energy Corp.; Georgia-Pacific; Phillips Petroleum Company; Weyerhauser Corp.

PUBLIC ENTITIES/PUBLIC FINANCE: City of Satsuma, Alabama; Mobile County Water Sewer & Fire Protection Authority; South Alabama Utilities; Utilities Board of the City of Bayou La Batre; Water & Sewer Board for the City of Satsuma, Alabama

REAL ESTATE: Cove Properties, Inc.; Charles Hayes Real Estate; Concord Neighborhood Corp; Heggeman Realty Company., Inc.; Mitchell Company; MLK Avenue Redevelopment; Morgantown Development; Ogburn Realty, Inc.; Sawgrass Pointe, LLC; Spanish Fort Development

RETAIL: Autrey Greer & Sons; Family Dollar Stores, Inc.; Family Dollar Stores of Alabama; Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.; F. Wolkow & Sons, Inc.

SCIENCE/RESEARCH: Coastal Weather Research Center

TRANSPORTATION: Georgia-Pacific; Heartland Express, Inc. of Iowa; McKenzie Tank Lines, Inc.; Peterbilt of Mobile, Inc.; SAIA Motor Lines; Tiger-Sunbelt Industries

WARRANTIES: Warranty Corporation

WHOLESALE: SYSCO