Madeline helps clients obtain relief from adverse judgments, particularly multi-million dollar damages awards. After practicing general commercial litigation for a number of years, Madeline helped the firm develop its specialization in post-trial and appellate work. Convinced that appellate success lies in the details of a case, Madeline works to master a trial record quickly so that she may work with her client and with trial counsel to identify, shape and creatively argue the issues that an appellate court will find most persuasive. Madeline also knows that significant verdicts may impact a company in various ways, so she strives to work with clients to achieve the result best-suited to their circumstances.

Madeline taught Appellate Advocacy as an adjunct professor at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law for ten years, and she is a contributing author to Lawyer’s Cooperative’s Eleventh Circuit Appellate Practice Guide. Madeline graduated magna cum laude from Tulane Law School in 1989 where she was named to the Order of the Coif. Madeline earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Williams College in 1986.

When she is not practicing law, Madeline pursues her interest in education. She has tutored in the Birmingham City Schools for many years. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for Highlands School, an independent elementary school, and she serves on the Women’s Committee for Cornerstone Schools of Alabama, a private elementary school that offers Birmingham’s inner-city students an alternative to public school and is funded almost entirely by community donations. Madeline’s favorite teachers are her four children.