Christian & Small Partner Rick D. Norris will speak at the inaugural Help the Hills town hall meeting at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 18, at Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church. This town hall meeting is a community forum that is part of a larger initiative designed to address childhood/teenage substance abuse problems in Vestavia … Read More
By Rick Norris, Christian & Small Partner (Photo by Karim Shamsi-Basha) When my wife’s brother passed away, his obituary said that he died after a long and valiant struggle with brain cancer. When my son died from a drug and alcohol overdose, his obituary simply said that he died suddenly. Because of the shame associated … Read More
By Deborah Alley Smith, Christian & Small Managing Partner Recent national data suggests there is a critical problem facing women in the legal profession that requires immediate action from female attorneys and the bar as a whole. This problem, if left unaddressed, will be detrimental to young women seeking legal careers, as well as to … Read More
Christian & Small is pleased to announce that Partner Kenneth O. Simon has been appointed by the Supreme Court of Alabama to the Alabama Pattern Jury Instructions Committee-Civil. The Alabama Pattern Jury Instructions Committee-Civil, formed in 1967, monitors and addresses essential changes and additions to the pattern jury instructions for civil cases to the Supreme … Read More
Christian & Small is pleased to announce that Partner Richard E. Smith was recently inducted as a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers at its mid-year meeting in Manchester Village, Vermont. The Academy is a group of truly elite trial lawyers representing both sides of the Bar: prosecutors and defense lawyers in criminal cases, and plaintiffs’ and … Read More
On April 30, 2012, the state of Alabama took a monumental step in passing a Private Judging Act – one of the few states so far to do so. This act went into effect July 1, 2012. (Act. No. 2012-266, and codified at §12-17-350 et seq.) The main purpose of the Private Judging Act was … Read More
