Shawn Junkins Cole

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Virtually 100% of Mrs. Cole’s practice involves workers’ compensation matters and other related and ancillary issues including retaliatory discharge/wrongful termination.  She is a certified mediator and focuses her mediation practice on employment related matters. Mrs. Cole represents insurance companies, Funds, governmental entities, corporations, and other businesses, both large and small, throughout Alabama in a variety of workers’ compensation related legal matters including consultations on preventative measures to alleviate on the job injuries and to counsel businesses on handling work-related claims prior to litigation. She has worked in both private practice and as in-house counsel dealing with litigation and regulatory compliance matters for companies that underwrite workers’ compensation and employers’ liability coverage.

O | (334) 834-7600
D | (334) 386-4340
F | (334) 832-7419
Montgomery

More About Shawn

She is a frequent lecturer on varied  workers’ compensation matters including specific legal issues as well as ethics, ethical billing practices, and cost saving measures for adjusters and employers. She also participates on the county and state level in matters involving law student and attorney ethics issues. Mrs. Cole is also heavily involved in community outreach working with nonprofit organizations and  serves on several non-profit boards.

Associations

Alabama State Bar Association, Member of the Workers’ Compensation Division

Montgomery County Bar Foundation, Board of Directors

Montgomery County Bar Association, Member

Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, Member

Hugh Maddox American Inn of Court, Vice President

Alabama Workers’ Compensation Organization, Member

Alabama Workers’ Compensation Defense Lawyers Association, Treasurer 

Honors & Awards

2024 MCBA Service & Achievement Award Recipient

2023 Comp Laude® Defense Attorney of the Year

AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Named “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers® for Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers, Montgomery (2023)

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2021

Community Involvement

Flatline Community Coalition, Advisory Committee

Alabama Volunteer Lawyers, Volunteer

Alabama National Fair, Past President

Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation, Board President

Practice Areas

Bar Admissions

Alabama, 1993

Education

J.D., Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, 1993

B.A., University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1990