Leadership Forum Update, 0917 ALBJ, 78 The Alabama Lawyer 364 (2017)

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LEADERSHIP FORUM UPDATE

Vol. 78 No. 5 Pg. 364

Alabama Bar Lawyer

September, 2017

Hosp Honored with Servant Leadership Award

Edward A. “Ted” Hosp was recently named the 2017 recipient of the Edward M. Patterson Servant Leadership Award. This award is given annually to a member of the Leadership Forum Alumni Section who demonstrates professional excellence, integrity and service to the bar and the community at large.

Ted is known throughout the state as an expert in the areas of government ethics laws, the legislative and regulatory process and campaign finance law. From 1989 to 1991, he served on the staff of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. In 1994, he graduated cum laude from Fordham University School of Law. Before joining Maynard, Cooper & Gale, he clerked for the Honorable Harold Albritton, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama from 1994-1995. From 1999 to 2003, he served as legal advisor to the Governor of Alabama.

Ted stays busy. He not only serves as co-leader of Maynard Cooper’s governmental and regulatory affairs practice group, but also serves as an administrative law judge for Alabama’s State Health Planning and Development Agency, focusing on certificates of need. Ted also believes in educating the next generation of lawyers. He has served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Alabama School of Law on ethics and election law. He also educates those currently in our government on ethics and campaign finance law through his work with the Association of County Commissioners of Alabama.

Ted consistently shows up to serve as a leader to Alabama lawyers. He is a founder and the current chair of the Alabama State Bar Section on Ethics, Elections & Government Relations Law. He is a member of the Alabama Access to Justice Commission, which was established by the Alabama...