Edgar M. Elliott IV
Christian & Small LLP
1800 Financial Center
505 North 20th Street
Birmingham, Alabama 35203

Tel:  205.250.6603
Fax: 205.328.7234
email: eme@csattorneys.com

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Practice Areas
Transportation
Insurance
Product Liability
Premises Liability
Medical Malpractice
  Defense

Admitted to Practice
Alabama, 1982

Education
Washington and Lee University, 1979, B.A., magna cum laude, History

University of Alabama School of Law, 1982, J.D.

Edgar Elliott is a partner in the firm's Litigation practice group. He was a founding partner of Christian & Small and was a partner in it's predecessor firm, Rives & Peterson. He started his practice with Rives & Peterson in 1983.

Mr. Elliott defends civil litigation throughout the state of Alabama in both state and federal trial courts and has done so for over 20 years. Mr. Elliott's practice focuses on the representation of trucking companies in personal injury and wrongful death litigation, insurance companies in bad faith, fraud and coverage matters, and product manufacturers in product liability lawsuits.

Mr. Elliott's representative clients include Werner Enterprises, Inc., Scottsdale Insurance Company, ConAgra Foods, Inc., Heartland Express, Inc., Millis Transfer, Inc., Nationwide Insurance Company, W.E. Love & Associates, National Casualty Insurance Company, Western Heritage Insurance Company and Victoria Insurance Company.

Mr. Elliott is an active member in the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel where he is a Vice-Chair of the Membership Development & Retention Committee and a Vice-Chair of the Transportation Section, as well as being a member of other sections relevant to his practice. He is also active in the American Bar Association's Commercial Transportation Committee where he is a Vice-Chair and recently edited its punitive damages compendium. He is active in the Trucking Industry Defense Association and contributes to its publication.

Professional Honors and Affiliations

• Included in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Insurance Law
• Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel
• Listed as one Alabama's Super Lawyers for Transportation
• Defense Research Institute, Medical Malpractice Committee
• International Association of Defense and Corporate Counsel
• Trucking Industry Defense Association
• Transportation Lawyers Association
• American Bar Association, Commercial Transportation
• Alabama State Bar Association
• Birmingham Bar Association

Court Admissions

• Alabama State Bar
• United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
• United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama
• United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama

Publications

• "Statutory Caps on Punitive Damages: Could What Was Once Old Be New Again?"  download pdf
• "Discovery Techniques for the Defense"  download pdf
• "The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and its Impact on the Discovery of Customer Lists and Policyholder Files"  download pdf
• "Paper Discovery: Specific Documents That Should Be Discovered and Examined"  download pdf
• "Demonstrative Evidence"  download pdf
• "Liability Insurance: Reservation of Rights, Intervention and Declaratory Judgments"  download pdf
• "Opening Statements"  download pdf
• "Ex Parte State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company"  download pdf
• "Closing Argument from the Defense Perspective"  download pdf
• "Cross Examination"  download pdf
• "Supreme Court Considers HMO Malpractice Suits"  download pdf
• "Depositions"  download pdf
• "Sarbanes-Oxley: A Brief Overview"  download pdf

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