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 Sharon D. Stuart
Christian & Small LLP
1800 Financial Center
505 North 20th Street
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
Tel: 205.250.6678
Fax: 205.328.7234
email: sds@csattorneys.com
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PARTNER
Practice Areas
Business & Commercial
Litigation
Complex Litigation
Insurance
Admitted to Practice
Alabama, 1992
Texas, 1990
Education
Samford University, 1987, B.S., Public Administration (Dean's List)
Cumberland School of Law, 1990, J.D. (ABA National Trial Advocacy Team; Cumberland Law Review, Associate Editor)
Judicial Clerkship
Honorable Sharon Lovelace Blackburn, Chief Judge, United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
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Sharon Stuart is a partner in the firm’s Litigation practice group. She handles complex business and insurance cases in the state and federal courts and in arbitration. Ms. Stuart has been fortunate to defend a wide variety of insurance coverage, bad faith and fraud cases. Her expertise inclues life insurance, annuity, broker/dealer and agency issues, first party property cases, environmental claims, financial product (such as residual value insurance), fidelity, and surety bond litigation. She has also handled a broad spectrum of cases involving corporate governance, patent and licensing issues, consumer finance issues, drug pricing and product liability claims.
Ms. Stuart’s trial experience includes commercial and insurance fraud, bad faith, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence and wrongful death cases. She has also defended class action lawsuits in areas as diverse as consumer finance, insurance, toxic tort and employment law (Equal Pay Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, age, sex and race discrimination).
Prior to joining the firm in 1993, Ms. Stuart was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Sharon Lovelace Blackburn, Chief United States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama and practiced law at a large Dallas, Texas firm.
Professional Honors and Affiliations
- AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Included in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation
- Birmingham Business Journal, "Best of the Birmingham Bar," Insurance Law
- International Association of Defense Counsel
- Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, Amicus Curiae Committee
- Birmingham Bar Association, Co-Chair, Civil Courts Procedures Committee
- Defense Research Institute
- American Inns of Court
- Attorneys Insurance Mutual, Director
- American Bar Association
- The Literacy Council, Board of Directors
Representative Reported Decisions
Court Admissions
- Alabama State Bar
- Texas State Bar
- United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
- United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
- United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama
- United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama
- United States District Court, Northern District of Texas
Publications
- "Civil Procedure Update: A Survey of Recent Case Law Interpreting the Rules" download pdf
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