Giving Back to the Community

Our lawyers – and those who work here with our lawyers – care passionately about their community, their schools, their state, and their faith. This is borne out by a number of service activities that have little or nothing to do with practicing law. Members of the firm’s staff, in fact, are given 5 days off per year with pay (in addition to vacation or sick leave) to donate to charitable causes.

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To that end, our people have chosen to be involved with the following, all on their own time:

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• Financially supporting Angel Food Ministries, a faith-based charitable organization that provides low-cost and nutritious food to families in need — to the end that over 30,000 of meals have been provided completely free of charge through donations from our personnel, that is nearly 5 miles of 10-inch dinner plates.

• Speaking at drug- and alcohol-abuse awareness programs at churches, schools, and other civic organizations.

• Sponsoring a Shrimp Boil to help those affected by the Gulf oil disaster through the purchase of dozens of pounds of Gulf shrimp, and soliciting donations that result in proceeds being sent to a church in Bon Secour, Alabama, to minister to the needs of families affected by the disaster.

• Teaching at hundreds of high school classes on the consequences of drunk driving, through Lawyers Against Drunk Driving — which we founded.

• Providing free legal advice at churches.

• Speaking on coping skills to assemblies of parents of children with eating disorders.

• Conducting Bible studies with incarcerated prisoners

• Fundraising for charities researching and treating those with congenital heart defects.

• Teaching children’s Sunday School classes.

• Providing labor to churches affiliated with the Angel Food Ministries, involving unloading tractor-trailers of food, setting the food up for distribution, and delivering it to familes in need.

• Establishing and financially supporting a “scholarship” fund to assist those trying to break free of generational poverty by aiding with educational or vocational expenses; that fund has helped many people complete college educations.

• Providing a cash award at the Cumberland School of Law’s American Journal of Trial Advocacy for best Senior Paper.

• Mentoring youth, through IMPACT Family Counseling, who are coping with the incarceration of family members.

• Financially and hands-on supporting food ministries in Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Spanish Fort.

• Financially supporting several public schools and their students by paying off accrued balances from school lunch or activities account

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One of our favorite long-time ministries has been cooking out for the inner city homeless in downtown Birmingham the 4th Friday of every month; we do barbecue or hot dogs or hamburgers and loud beach music and make it a festive time. And that is something that has blessed the lives of all of our people in serving our downtown friends.