Bar Briefs

• Publication year: 2010
• Pages: 0021
• Citation: Vol. 71 No. 1 Pg. 0021

BAR BRIEFS
Vol. 71 No. 1 Pg. 21
The Alabama Lawyer
JANUARY, 2010

ALABAMA WORKERS' COMP BLAWG

ROBIN L. BEARDSLEY

MARCUS M. MAPLES

CHARLES GAINES

WILBOR HUST

ANTHONY JOSEPH

JOHN SAXON

JOE WHATLEY

APRIL HOUSTON

WILLIAM B. MCGUIRE, JR.

FREDRICK H. OLSEN

• The Alabama Workers' Comp Blawg was recently selected as a LexisNexis Top 25 Blogs for Workers' Compensation and Workplace Issues. Selections were made by the LexisNexis Workers' Compensation Law Center staff using feedback from community members and Larson's National Workers' Compensation Advisory Board members. The blog is owned and maintained by the Birmingham firm of FISH NELSON, LLC which handles insurance defense litigation with a focus on workers' compensation matters.

• Robin L. Beardsley and Marcus M. Maples of Sirote & Permutt will chair subcommittees for the 2009-10 Defense Research Institute Young Lawyers' Committee. As members of the YL Steering Committee, Beardsley will chair the Civility & Professionalism Subcommittee and Maples will serve as vice chair of the Diversity Subcommittee.

• The State Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers announce that Charles Gaines, Wilbor Hust, Anthony Joseph, John Saxon and Joe Whatley have been inducted into the fellowship. The college strives to improve the standards of trial practice, the administration of justice and the ethics, civility and collegiality of the trial profession.

• The Alabama Law Foundation announces that April Houston is the winner of the Justice Janie L. Shores Scholarship. The foundation and the Women's Section of the Alabama State Bar established the scholarship in 2006 for female residents attending an Alabama law school. The Justice Janie L. Shores scholarship is named in honor of the first female Alabama Supreme Court Justice, who was elected in 1974. Houston graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2005. She currently attends the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law School in Montgomery and will graduate in May 2010. Houston has served on the editorial board of the Faulkner Law Review, was a Camille Armstrong...