Eleven Partners at Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC have been recognized in the 2008 edition of Best Lawyers in America, and the firm has more listed lawyers in Best Lawyers in America in the fields of Environmental Law, Personal Injury Litigation and Product Liability Litigation than any other firm in Alabama.
But individual accolades are only the tip of the iceberg.
The lawyers at Lightfoot, Franklin & White are an experienced group. They include the former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama; a former Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court (who served on the Court for 20 years); four Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers (including the College’s president from 2002–2003, who continues to serve as a non-voting member of the College’s Board of Regents); two former state bar commissioners; a former president of the Alabama State Bar; the former chairman of the Board of Editors for the Manual for Complex Litigation, Second; a former member of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation; one of the Alabama members of the Product Liability Advisory Council; a former president of the Birmingham Bar Association; three members of the American Board of Trial Advocates (one of whom is a former president of its Alabama Chapter); a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers; and the author of a book on toxic torts litigation.