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Birmingham, AL – White Arnold & Dowd P.C. is pleased to announce that its three named shareholders, J. Mark White, Stephen R. Arnold, and Augusta S. Dowd have once again been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 20^th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. White was named in the practice areas of the Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White-Collar, Litigation – Environmental, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, and Mediation. Additionally, Mr. White was named the Best Lawyers’ 2014 Birmingham Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants “Lawyer of the Year,” an honor awarded to only a single lawyer in each practice area in each community annually.

Mr. Arnold was recognized in the Family Law practice area, an honor he has been awarded annually since 1983.

Ms. Dowd was selected in the practice areas of Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Environmental and Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants.  In 2011, Ms. Dowd was named the Best Lawyers’ Birmingham Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants “Lawyer of the Year,” a distinction Mr. White now shares.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which almost 50,000 leading attorneys cast nearly five million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.” The Best Lawyers in America© 2014. Copyright 2013 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC.

About White Arnold & Dowd P.C.: From high-profile litigation to mediation and private disputes, the 21 attorneys at AV-rated White Arnold & Dowd P.C. excel at finding creative strategies to minimize disruptions and help our clients keep moving forward in business and in life. We have a plan for the unplanned. For more information, visit www.whitearnolddowd.com.

Contact:
Kitty Rogers Brown
(205) 241-3139
kbrown@whitearnolddowd.com

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Alabama State Bar President Anthony A. Joseph has appointed the following White Arnold & Dowd P.C. attorneys to serve on ASB committees and task forces for the 2013-2014 year:

J. Mark White: Operations Task Force; Future of the Profession Task Force.

Rebecca G. DePalma: Governmental Liaison Committee; Leadership Forum Selection Committee, chair; reappointed as member of Panel 3 of ASB Disciplinary Panel

Kitty Rogers Brown: Pro Bono and Public Service Committee

Hope S. Marshall: Diversity Committee, co-chair

About White Arnold & Dowd P.C.: From high-profile litigation to mediation and private disputes, the 21 attorneys at AV-rated White Arnold & Dowd P.C. excel at finding creative strategies to minimize disruptions and help our clients keep moving forward in business and in life. We have a plan for the unplanned. For more information, visit www.whitearnolddowd.com.

Contact:
Kitty Rogers Brown
(205) 241-3139
kbrown@whitearnolddowd.com

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Birmingham, AL – When the 2013 Alabama State Bar Annual Meeting gets underway this week in Point Clear, Alabama, lawyers from White Arnold & Dowd P.C. will be either at the helm or busy behind the scenes of many of the featured sessions, events, receptions, and workshops.

On Thursday, White Arnold & Dowd P.C. shareholder Augusta S. Dowd is speaking on a panel entitled “What to Do When the Government Comes Calling: What Every Practitioner Needs to Know About White Collar Crime.” The panel discussion provides attendees one hour of mandatory continuing legal education credit. Dowd has an active, wide-ranging white collar criminal practice, including the defense of financial services crime, healthcare fraud and environmental crime, as well as corporate compliance. She also has extensive experience in civil and complex litigation. Dowd is a Fellow with the American Bar Foundation and serves on the ASB Board of Bar Commissioners.

Another accredited session, entitled “Diversity in the Courtroom: Why We Need to Talk About It” was organized by the ASB’s Diversity Committee, of which White Arnold & Dowd P.C. shareholder Hope Marshall is Co-Chair.  White Arnold & Dowd P.C. is also sponsoring a reception focusing on the theme “Celebrating the Diversity of Our Profession.”

The ASB Young Lawyers Section and Leadership Forum Section are co-sponsoring a CLE session entitled “Top Seven Strategies to Improve Your Firm’s Profitability Today . . . and Tomorrow.” White Arnold & Dowd P.C. shareholders Rebecca DePalma, the immediate past chair of the Leadership Forum Section, and Kitty Rogers Brown, the President of the ASB Young Lawyers Section, helped organize this CLE session.

Several other White Arnold & Dowd lawyers are active participants, not only in the Alabama State Bar Association’s annual meeting but in ASB leadership year-round.

• Shareholder Kitty Rogers Brown will conclude her term as President of the ASB Young Lawyers Section at the annual meeting. Brown was recently elected by the ASB Board of Bar Commissioners to serve as a delegate for Alabama in the ABA House of Delegates beginning in 2014.
• Associate Lisha Graham has been selected to be a member of the Executive Committee for the ASB Young Lawyers Section.
• Associate Shane Smith serves as Secretary for the Executive Board of the ASB Family Law Section.
• Shareholder Andrew C. Allen is President-elect of the Labor and Employment Law Section of ASB.
• Shareholder Rebecca DePalma’s leadership roles within the ASB include memberships on the Board of Bar Commissioners, Disciplinary Board, Panel III, and the Governmental Liaison Committee. As immediate past chair of the Leadership Forum Section, DePalma will remain on the ASB Executive Council for 2014. For her exemplary service to the Bar and the legal profession, the Alabama State Bar will present its annual ASB President’s Award to Rebecca DePalma at the Bench and Bar Luncheon on Thursday.

Contact:
Kitty Rogers Brown
(205) 241-3139
kbrown@whitearnolddowd.com

Augusta S. Dowd has been named Birmingham’s Mass Tort Litigator of the Year by 2011 Edition of Best Lawyers in America. The peer-review publication selects a single lawyer in each specialty in each community for the honor.

Hope S. Marshall, an associate with the firm of White Arnold & Dowd P.C., has been selected as member of the 2011 class of the Birmingham Bar Association’s Leadership Forum. The program is an initiative created to cultivate leaders among a group of motivated attorneys who have been practicing for 3 to 7 years. The select group of lawyers will attend an intense six-month curriculum focused on leadership within the Bar and the community.

Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named J. Mark White as the “Birmingham Best Lawyers Criminal Defense: White Collar Lawyer of the Year” for 2010.

After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 16th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2010), is based on more than 2.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Steven Naifeh, Managing Editor of Best Lawyers, says, “We continue to believe – as we have believed for more than 25 years – that recognition by one’s peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession. We would like to congratulate J. Mark White on being selected as the ‘Birmingham Best Lawyers Criminal Defense: White Collar Lawyer of the Year’ for 2010.”

Kitty Rogers Brown was recently recognized as a “Woman to Watch” at the Junior League of Birmingham’s annual meeting.

White Arnold & Dowd P.C. attorneys selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers in America are Stephen R. Arnold for Family Law, Augusta S. Dowd for Commercial Litigation and Mass Tort Litigation, and J. Mark White for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense and Mass Tort Litigation.

Five White Arnold & Dowd lawyers are recognized in the 2009 edition of Alabama Super Lawyers, an independent lawyer rating publication. The attorneys selected for inclusion are: Andrew C. Allen, Employment and Labor; Stephen R. Arnold, Family Law; William M. Bowen, Jr., Criminal Defense; Augusta S. Dowd and J. Mark White, General Litigation. In addition, J. Mark White was included in the Top 50 Attorneys list. Augusta S. Dowd made the list of Top 25 Women and Top 50 Attorneys.

Birmingham, AL — White Arnold & Dowd P.C. attorneys selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America are Stephen R. Arnold, family law; Augusta S. Dowd, commercial litigation and mass tort; Gregory H. Hawley, commercial litigation; J. Mark White, alternative dispute resolution, commercial litigation, mass tort and white collar criminal defense.