Richard F. Ogle
Christian & Small LLP
1800 Financial Center
505 North 20th Street
Birmingham, Alabama 35203

Tel:  205.250.6623
Fax: 205.328.7234
email: rfogle@csattorneys.com

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Practice Areas
Business & Commercial
  Litigation
Mediation & Arbitration

Admitted to Practice
Alabama, 1968

Education
The University of Alabama, B.A., 1964 (ODK; Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities)

The University of Alabama School of Law, 1968, J.D. (Bench and Bar Legal Honor Society)

Judicial Clerkship
Honorable Virgil Pittman, United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama, 1968-1970

Professional Honors and Affiliations

• Included in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation
• Outstanding Young Men of America (1974)
• Listed as one Alabama's Super Lawyers for Business Litigation
• Who's Who in the South and Southwest (1976)
• Who's Who in American Law (1977)
• American Trial Lawyers Association
• Alabama Trial Lawyers Association
• American Judicature Society, Board of Directors (1988-1992)
• Alabama Law Institute, Chairman of Committee on Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act
• Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Alabama Rules of Evidence (1988-present)
• University of Alabama School of Law Foundation, Board of Directors (1998-present)
• American Board of Trial Advocates (2001-present)
• Fellow, Alabama Law Foundation
• American Bar Association, member of Litigation Section
• Alabama State Bar, Executive Committee Young Lawyers Section
• Birmingham Bar Association, President (1990); President of Young Lawyers Section (1977); Secretary/Treasurer (1987); Executive Committee
• Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, Taxation Committee and Sports Development Committee
• Birmingham Tip Off Club, Founder and President
• Children's Dance Foundation, Director (1989-1990)
• Birmingham Police Athletic Teams, Director (1989-present)
• Birmingham Downtown YMCA, Director (1996-present)

Representative Reported Decisions

• Carrier Express v. Home Indemnity Co., 860 F. Supp. 1465 (N.D. Ala. 1994)
• American Standard Credit, Inc. v. National Cement Co., 643 F.2d 248 (5th Cir. 1981)
• Pierce v. Hand Arendall Bedsole, 678 So.2d 765 (Ala. 1996)
• American Family Care, Inc. v. Irwin, 571 So.2d 1053 (Ala. 1990)
• J.C. Jacobs Banking Co. v. Campbell, 406 So.2d 834 (Ala. 1981)
• Robinson v. Boohaker, Schillaci & Co., P.C., 767 So.2d 1092 (Ala. 2000)
• Aldridge v. DaimlerChrysler Corp., 809 so.2d 785 (Ala. 2001)

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

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