Representing Plaintiffs Since 1895

Jamie joined the firm in 2003, and has devoted his practice to representing the rights of individuals and small businesses in civil litigation. Jamie’s trial practice has been focused in the areas of personal injury, wrongful death, breach of contract, medical malpractice, product liability, class actions, as well as qui tam litigation under the Federal False Claims Act. In his first few years at Hare Wynn, Jamie tried several jury cases to verdict, obtaining favorable results for his clients in a variety of matters. He has also argued countless motions and handled appeals before a variety of courts, from oral argument before the federal court for the Southern District of New York, to oral argument before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Jamie’s trial practice routinely takes him throughout the state of Alabama; however, he also handles serious cases in states across the country, including pending cases in Mississippi, Florida, Texas, and West Virginia. He has recently been involved in the following areas of litigation:

• represented numerous individuals, including minor children, involved in automobile and tractor-trailer accidents
• represented numerous individuals in litigation against their own automobile insurance company for payment of un-insured or under-insured motorist benefits
• represented several motorcycle drivers for serious injuries sustained caused by negligent or inattentive automobile drivers, including amputations and other serious injuries
• represented a school teacher who sustained serious injuries when she was run over by the driver of a vehicle while crossing the street after church; the case was tried to a verdict in favor of the plaintiff
• represented numerous individuals and their families for claims of medical malpractice and wrongful death against physicians, hospitals and nurses
• represented an entrepreneur in a trade secret/breach of contract case against a multi-national corporation that misappropriated her ideas without paying compensation under the licensing agreement
• represented a family in a case against a construction company for negligent construction of their new home
• represented the family of a man killed at a railroad crossing when the train’s engineer failed to give proper warning signals
• represented individuals harmed or killed from dangerous prescription and over-the-counter drugs
• represented numerous whistleblowers in a variety of cases for wrongful termination after the whistleblower reported corporate fraud against the federal government
• represented the families of the deceased in cases against life insurance companies for denying life insurance benefits without justification, including some cases under the federal ERISA law
• represented the family of a young child who was fatally injured on defective and unsafe playground equipment
• represented a bank teller unlawfully terminated and denied workers’ compensation after she was physically assaulted and robbed at gunpoint during a bank robbery
• represented numerous families wrongfully denied homeowners’ insurance coverage
• represented individuals and families for serious harm or death caused by defective or unsafe products

Affiliations & Memberships

• Alabama Association for Justice, Executive Committee ( Alabama Trial Lawyers Association)
• American Association for Justice
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America, New Lawyers Division, Board of Governors
• American Inns of Court, Birmingham Chapter
• Birmingham Bar Association, Young Lawyers Executive Committee & Committee Chair
• Tennessee Bar Association
• Phoenix Club of Birmingham
• Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association

Publications

• Elson, Helms & Moncus, Corporate Governance Reform and Reemergence from Bankruptcy: Putting the Structure Back in Restructuring, 55 VAND. L. REV. 1917 (2002).
• Note, The Marriage of the False Claims Act and the Freedom of Information Act: Of Parasitic Potential or Positive Synergy?, 55 VAND. L. REV. 1549 (2002)