President-Elect Profiles, 0317 ALBJ, 78 The Alabama Lawyer 96 (2017)
Sam W. Irby
Sam W. Irby practices law with the firm of Irby & Heard PC in Fairhope. After graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law, he returned to his hometown to practice law. He has always practiced as a solo or small-firm practitioner.
Sam currently serves in his second three-year term as a member of the Alabama State Bar Commission representing Baldwin County, is chair of the Solo & Small Firm Section and serves or has served on many state bar committees. He is a recipient of the Alabama State Bar President’s Award and a Fellow of the Alabama Law Foundation. For many years, he has held an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Sam is registered on the Alabama State Court Mediator Roster and Alabama Appellate Mediation Roster and has been appointed to mediate cases by both the Baldwin County Circuit Court and the Supreme Court of Alabama.
Sam serves as a member of a committee appointed by the Alabama Law Institute reviewing the Alabama Uniform Condominium Act of 1991 considering amendments to be proposed to the Alabama Legislature. He is the author of “Indestructible Survivorship or Destructible Survivorship: Which Form of Survivorship Is Best for Your Client?” which was published in the January 2017 issue of The Alabama Lawyer.
Sam is married to Virginia Marriott Irby and they have three children.
R. Cooper Shattuck
Over the last 27 years, Cooper Shattuck has experienced virtually every facet of the practice of law and service to and through the state bar. Cooper spent 20 years in private practice in Tuscaloosa, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts, which included work not only throughout the state, but later throughout the nation and in Puerto Rico. His firm grew to be the largest in west Alabama with Cooper as one of its managing shareholders.
He later served as chief legal advisor to the governor, where he worked with and in all areas of state government. Working extensively on the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon/BP Oil Spill, he led the state’s efforts to assess damages done both economically and environmentally. He continued to serve as special counsel to the governor for all spill-related matters when he became general counsel of the University of Alabama System. He led the governor’s team in settlement negotiations resulting in a $1...
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