Honors and Awards:

• National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers- 2012
• AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating Service
• Distinguished Service Award, Kiwanis of Lee County
• Auburn A-Club Heavyweight Boxing Champion, 1978
• Alabama AAU Heavyweight Champion, 1981
• Alabama Heavyweight Golden Gloves Champion, 1982
• Opelika/Auburn All-Millenium Football Team, 2000
• Million Dollar & Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum Lifetime Member, 2010
• Alabama Super Lawyer, 2011

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Alabama State Bar - Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, Chairman
• Alabama State Bar - Executive Committee, Young Lawyers Section, 1986
• Alabama State Bar - Task Force on Illiteracy, 1988
• Alabama State Bar - Indigent Defense Committee, 1989
• Alabama State Bar - Military Law Committee, 1990
• Alabama State Bar - Task Force on Disaster Response, 1991

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Annual gifts to local United Way and other well-known charitable institutions.
• Provided funding at a village in Zambia for water well which should provide fresh drinking water for 20+ years to 300 or more people a day.
• Provided 65 new Riddell football helmets for Varsity Football team at St. James School - Montgomery, AL
• Annual Sponsor of Chambers County Sheriff's Rodeo
• YMCA Basketball Coach - Montgomery, AL
• Past President of YMCA Board of Directors
• Past Board member of Lee County Boys & Girls Club

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Prepared and presented a program regarding tractor-trailer claims and litigation, Seminar Instructor, Killer Trucks, AL, People's Court Law School - Auburn, 2000
• Prepared and presented a program regarding car wreck claims and litigation, Seminar Instructor, Trying the Automobile Injury Case in Alabama, AL, Statewide Attorney Seminar - Montgomery, 2003
• Prepared and presented program regarding "out of the box" solutions to automobile litigation in State District Court, Seminar Instructor, Taking a Case to State District Court, AL, Alabama Trial Lawyers - Winter Convention - Birmingham, 2004
• Presented and prepared program regarding the handling of motor vehicle personal injury claims, Seminar Instructor, Strategies for Succesfully Trying Automobile Cases, AL, Statewide Attorney Seminar - Montgomery, 2005
• Prepared and presented program regarding investigation, discovery, and selection of automobile injury cases, Seminar Instructor, How to Successfully Resolve Automobile Injury Cases, AL, Statewide Attorney Seminar - Montgomery, 2007
• Prepared and presented program regarding strategies for obtaining personal injury settlements, Seminar Instructor, Obtaining the Best Settlement for Personal Injury Clients, AL, Statewide Attorney Seminar - Montgomery, 2008
• Prepared and presented program regarding Federal and State DOT regulations covering tractor-trailer collisions, Seminar Instructor, Truck Accident Litigation from Start to Finish, AL, Statewide Attorney Seminar - Montgomery, 2008
• Prepared and presented program regarding resolution of hospital liens, health insurance liens, Medicare liens, Medicaid liens, Med-pay liens, and other issues regarding subrogation and liens, Seminar Instructor, Subrogation and Liens in Auto Accident Litigation, AL, Statewide Attorney Seminar - Montgomery, 2009
• Prepared and presented a program regarding pedestrian type personal injury cases including all aspects from selection to resolution., Seminar Instructor, Pedestrian Injury Litigation Primer, National Webinar, 2010
• Prepared and presented program regarding numerous issues in handling car wreck claims, Seminar Instructor, Handling the Auto Injury Claim, AL, Statewide Attorney Seminar - Montgomery, 2010
• Prepared and presented program regarding car wreck claims, mediation and litigation, Seminar Instructor, Motor Vehicle Collisions Start to Finish, Jones School Of Law, 2010
• Prepared and presented program regarding car wrecks from selection through discovery and settlement tactics, Seminar Instructor, Motor Vehicle Collisions Start to Finish, Montgomery County Bar Association, 2010
• Prepared and presented a program regarding Tractor Trailer Crashes - NBI - Montgomery, AL, 2011
• Prepared and presented a program regarding Motor Vehicle Collisions Start to Finish, Chambers County Bar Association, 2011
• Prepared and presented program emphasizing preparation of the plaintiff for mediation, Seminar Instructor, Mediation - Fighting for Dollars, AR, Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association - Little Rock, 2011

Verdicts and Settlements:

• $17,500,000.00 Verdict - Insurance Fraud - Chambers County, AL, 1996
• $2,000,000.00 Verdict - Wanton Destruction of Business Property - Chambers County, AL, 2002
• $7,500,000.00 Settlement - Quadriplegic Injury (Multiple Defendants) - Harris County, GA, 2006
• $2,500,000.00 Settlement - Moderate Brain Injury - Lee County, AL, 2010
• $8,000,000.00 Settlement - Serious Traumatic Brain Injury - Chambers County, AL, 2010

Other Outstanding Achievements:

• Eagle Scout - Boy Scouts of America, Inc., 1974