Overview
Bob Bradford’s practice focuses on commercial
litigation, product liability and aviation litigation, and insurance and
securities litigation.
Areas of Practice:
Appellate Practice
Aviation
Commercial
& Business Litigation, including class
actions and stock holder derivative
actions Insurance
Product
Liability
Admissions:
Unites
States Supreme Court
U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 5th and 11th Circuits
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
Alabama
Mr.
Bradford has litigated cases on a pro hac vice basis in Florida, Tennessee, and
Mississippi
Memberships:
Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
Alabama State Bar
American Bar Association
International Association of Defense Counsel
Montgomery
County Bar Association
Biography
Bob Bradford received a B.A. from David Lipscomb College and
a J.D. from Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of the Vanderbilt Law
Review Editorial Board.
Experience
Bob
Bradford represents many clients in high profile cases, both at trial and on
appeal. His trial and appellate work
resulted in over fifty published opinions, two of which changed or extended the
law:
Hudgens v. Bell
Helicopter/Textron; DynCorp,
328 F.3d 1329 (11th Cir. 2003) - In 2002, Bob 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.
Parham v.
Foremost Insurance Company, 693
So.2d 409 (Ala. 1997) - Bob 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.
In
addition to his trial work, Bob has published works and lectured at a variety
of legal seminars, on topics ranging from shareholder derivative suits to fraud
cases.
Bob
was named as a Super Lawyer 2011 by Super
Lawyer.