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Robert W. Bradford , Jr.
Shareholder

Telephone 334-834-7600
Fax 334-263-5969
Email rwbradford@hillhillcarter.com

Mr. Bradford has over thirty years’ experience in commercial litigation (including class actions, stockholder derivative suits and tax litigation), product liability and aviation litigation, construction litigation, and insurance and securities litigation. He has represented many clients in high profile cases both at trial and on appeal. His trial and appellate work have resulted in approximately forty published opinions.

Practice Areas

  • - Appellate Practice
  • - Aviation
  • - Commercial & Business Litigation
  • - Construction
  • - Insurance
  • - Product Liability


Education

  • - Vanderbilt University School of Law, Nashville, Tennessee, 1975 J.D.
  • - Law Review: Vanderbilt Law Review, Editorial Board, 1973 - 1975
  • - David Lipscomb College, Nashville, TN, USA, 1972 B.A.

Bar Admissions

Alabama, 1975 U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th and 11th Circuit U.S. Supreme Court

Mr. Bradford has litigated cases on a pro hac vice basis in Florida, Tennessee, and Mississippi.

Associations

  • - Montgomery County Bar Association - Member
  • - Alabama State Bar - Member
  • - Alabama Defense Lawyers Association - Member
  • - International Association of Defense Counsel - Member

Noteworthy

  • - Mr. Bradford has defended aircraft manufacturers, aircraft component manufacturers, and aircraft maintenance providers in over 30 aviation crash cases. In 2002, Mr. Bradford represented an aviation maintenance provider and persuaded the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm a decision in favor of his client and to extend the government contractor’s defense to service providers. See Hudgens v. Bell Helicopter/Textron; DynCorp, 328 F.3d 1329 (11th Cir. 2003
  • - Over 40 cases in which Mr. Bradford participated resulted in published court opinions. Two of the cases changed and/or extended the law.
  • - Mr. Bradford handled the appeal of Parham v. Foremost Insurance Company in which Alabama fraud law was changed from the "justifiable reliance" standard to the "reasonable reliance" standard. 693 So.2d 409 (Ala. 1997).