Mike is in Beasley Allen's personal injury section and mainly handles car and
truck litigation, premise liability cases, and has special interest in
brain injury cases.
Mike has been successful in litigating against the "Big Box Stores,"
i.e. Wal-Mart, Home Depot and others, and he has a wealth of knowledge
of their practices and procedures.
Mike is currently handling several cases against a local School
Board for section 1983 violations and Title IX violations. These cases
range from young females students being sexually assaulted by a
substitute teacher to the local school board failing to have and
implement a Title IX policy.
Mike is a current and past member of the Montgomery County Bar
Association grievance committee and has served on the committee for the
past 9 years. In 2008 he was appointed to serve on the Alabama State
Bar committee when reviews the Unauthorized Practice of Law. He is also
on the Jimmy Hitchcock Committee which annually selects an outstanding
Christian student athlete from the local community. Mike is on the
Executive Committee of the Auburn University at Montgomery Basketball
Booster Club which is responsible for raising funds for the basketball
program, in which he was a former player. Mike is also an active member
of the Frazer United Methodist Church, where he has been appointed to
serve on the Board of Stewards through 2010.
He is married to the former Marla Taylor of Hope Hull, Alabama, and
they have two children. They attend Frazer United Memorial Methodist
Church in Montgomery. He is an avid Waterfowl hunter. He also is active
in Retriever Field Trials where he judges events across the country and
campaigns two of his own Labrador retrievers.
Mike is an active member of Frazier United Methodist Church where he
teaches Sunday School and has been on the Administrative Board since
2002. He also serves on the Kindergarden/Pre-School committee.