Concentration:

Mr. Hawley has over twenty-six years of experience as a litigator, representing defendants in numerous environmental tort, products liability and mass tort class actions. He has represented companies in class actions and individual actions involving alleged soil and groundwater contamination from underground storage tanks and underground pipelines. He has also represented defendants in state and national class actions involving seat belts, water pipes, contact lenses, hearing aids, paging systems, vanishing premium insurance policies, and other products liability and consumer fraud class actions.

Prior to White Arnold & Dowd:

From 1986- 2006 Mr. Hawley was a shareholder with Maynard, Cooper, & Gale, P.C. of Birmingham. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable U.W. Clemon, Chief Judge, Northern District of Alabama.

Practice Areas:

Representative Cases:

Greenwood v. CompuCredit Corp., 615 F.3d 1204 (9th Cir. 2010)

Ex parte State Mutual Ins. Co., 715 So. 2d 207 (Ala. 1997)

Chilton Water Authority, et al. v Shell Oil Co.,1999 U.S. Dist.
LEXIS 21595 (Unpublished Decision; M.D. Ala. 1999)

Representative Clients:

Occidental Chemical; Kinder Morgan Energy Partners; Barge Waggoner, Sumner & Cannon; Plantation Pipe Line Company; Dow Reichhold

Education and Honors:

Georgetown University (J.D., 1983)

Harvard College (A.B., 1979); cum laude

Best Lawyers in America 2009, 2010

Alabama Super Lawyers 2010

Birmingham Business Journal’s Best of the Bar 2006, Litigation

Professional Affiliations:

American Bar Association

Alabama State Bar
– Editor, The Alabama Lawyer

– Bar Commissioner (2006-2009)
– Alabama Bar Foundation (2006-2009)
– Mentor, Alabama State Bar Mentoring Program (2008- 2009)
– Mentor, Alabama State Bar Mentoring Program (2007-2008)
– Alabama State Bar Mentoring Task Force (2007-2008)
– Alabama Bar Foundation (2006-2009)
– Member, Standing Committee on Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, (2007-2009)
– Board of Editors, The Alabama Lawyer (1984-1991)

Alabama Law Foundation, Atticus Finch Society

Birmingham Bar Association
– President, (2010)
– President-Elect, (2009)
– Executive Committee, (2003-2006)
– Judicial Campaign Oversight Committee (2008)
– Long Range Planning Committee, Vice Chair (2008)
– Co-Chair Constitution and By-Laws Revision Committee, (2006)
– Co-Chair Constitution and By-Laws Revision Committee, (2006)
– Liaison to Jefferson County Judicial Campaigns (2004, 2006)
– Grievance Committee, (1990, 1992, 2000 - 2005)
– Increased Minority Participation Committee, (1994)

Civic Affiliations:

Birmingham Business Alliance

President, Harvard Alumni Club of Birmingham

Leadership Birmingham (1996)

Board of Governors, Indian Springs School Chair, $12.5 Million Capital Campaign