ATTORNEY BIO
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880 Montclair Road Suite 100 Birmingham, AL 35213
Assistant
Teri Roper
Legal Assistant
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Brett practices in LGWM's Insurance Coverage Practice Group. Brett counsels insurance clients on a wide variety of complex coverage issues, including matters arising from directors and officers claims, professional liability claims, errors and omissions claims, and commercial property and casualty claims. He also assists insurers in policy drafting and interpretation, case and reserve evaluation, and regulatory compliance. Brett has represented insurers in insurance-related litigation, arbitrations and mediations in Alabama and other jurisdictions. Brett frequently participates in seminars presented to the insurance industry addressing various coverage and claim-handling issues.

Professional Profile
  • Member, Alabama Bar Association.
  • Member, Birmingham Bar Association.
Admitted
  • All Alabama State Courts
Education
Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D., cum laude (2014)
- Order of the Coif
- Notes and Comments Editor, Wake Forest Law Review
- Author of: Individual Liability for Wrongful Discharge in Violation of
  Public Policy: An Emerging Trend, 48 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1345 (2013)
- Litigation Drafting Teaching Assistant
- I. Beverly Lake Award for excellence in constitutional law
- CALI Award for Excellence: Federal Income Tax, Constitutional Law,
  Healthcare Law and Policy, Great Jurists Seminar, Education Law

Ohio State University, B.A., Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, summa cum laude (2010)