Bar Briefs, 0518 ALBJ, 79 The Alabama Lawyer 213 (2018)

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Bar Briefs

Vol. 79 No. 3 Pg. 213

Alabama Bar Lawyer

May, 2018

• David l. Selby, II, a partner in the Bailey & Glasser LLP Birmingham office, was recently appointed to a leadership position in the Atrium Medical corporation C-Qur Hernia Mesh MDL. in addition, Selby has been appointed to the Plaintiffs’ steering committee in the smith & Nephew hip implant MDL which is pending in the united states district court of Maryland.

• Stephen Gidiere, a partner in the Birmingham office of Balch & Bingham and co-chair of the environmental and natural resources practice, was elected a Fellow of the American college of environmental lawyers (ACOEL), at the organization’s annual meeting last fall in Charleston. Gidiere has nearly 20 years of experience litigating environmental and natural resources cases against the federal government and non-governmental organizations in federal district courts, U.S. courts of Appeals and the U.S. supreme court.

• Beasley Allen announces that David Dearing, a principal attorney in the firm’s mass torts section, has been selected as a member of the international society of barristers, and that Kendall Dunson was inducted into the American board of Trial Advocates at the Alabama chapter’s annual meeting in November. Dunson serves on the state bar’s diversity committee and the client security Fund committee. he also served on the Alabama curriculum committee for the board of examiners.

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