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Announcements

Sara Elizabeth Lee is going to be speaking at a CLE scheduled for May 20, 2008 in Mobile at the Radisson Admiral Semmes Hotel. The CLE, entitled "The Art of the Settlement," is sponsored by National Business Institute. The topics she will be presenting include: "How to Succeed at Settlement Conferences," "Using Mediation When Settlements Don't Work," and participation in a mock settlement negotiation.

Lyons, Pipes & Cook invests in downtown Mobile.

Lyons, Pipes & Cook is pleased to announce that A. Kelly Sessoms, III and Barry W. Andrews have joined the firm as partners. Mr. Sessoms will practice in the firm's Mississippi office and Mr. Andrews will practice in the firm's Mobile office.

Robert C. Matthews and A. Grady "Bo" Williams, IV have joined the firm as associates. Mr. Matthews and Mr. Williams will practice in the firm's Mobile office.

Lyons, Pipes & Cook featured in Forbes magazine, September 3, 2007

The attorneys at Lyons, Pipes & Cook and the attorneys at Lehr Middlebrooks & Vreeland proudly announce their decision to form a strategic alliance to provide labor and employment representation to businesses along the Gulf Coast. Both firms are excited about what we can do for our clients in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. Lyons, Pipes & Cook has continuously provided legal representation to clients along the Gulf Coast in virtually every area of law since the firm was founded in 1899. Lehr Middlebrooks & Vreeland focuses in the area of labor and employment law on behalf of management, with an emphasis on management rights and the actions that management can take, rather than those it can't.

Mandy Herndon has been elected as one of two co-chairs of the Service Learning Committee for the Coast Young Professionals.

Lyons Pipes & Cook is pleased to announce that Birmingham Magazine has named the following attorneys as among The Best Lawyers® in Alabama: Cooper C. Thurber Commercial Litigation,
Insurance Law, Product Liability, Litigation
Thomas F. Garth
Tax Law, Employee Benefits Law, Non-Profit Charities
Marion A. Quina, Jr.
Maritime Law
William E. Shreve, Jr.
Appellate Law
Kenneth A. Nixon
Non-White-Collar Criminal Defense

Mandy Herndon was recently elected secretary of the Young Lawyers Section of the Jackson County, Mississippi Bar.

Cooper Thurber, Marion Quina, Tom Garth, William Shreve, Jr. and Ken Nixon were recently selected as Best Lawyers in America.
 
 
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