About
For over 25 years, Mr. Underwood has represented clients in elegance moves and complicated litigation in state and federal courts, including coordinated and multi-district complaints. Soon after Mr. Underwood acquired his license, he served because the Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of Alabama Eastern Division from 1987 until 1988.
Legal Experience
Mr. Underwood practices within the complicated litigation location. He has participated inside the prosecution of severa elegance actions on behalf of injured plaintiffs.
Mr. Underwood s experience consists of serving as courtroom-appointed lead class suggest and/or liaison counsel on behalf of plaintiffs in numerous magnificence actions and consumer-related court cases. His more superb instances consist of:
Tyler v The Mortgage Outlet: $900,000 elegance movement agreement for Truth-in-lending Act violations.
Farley v. Homeowners Loan Corp.: 10 Million greenback settlement in a category action against a mortgage originator. The primary allegation become that Homeowner s become making loans covered by means of the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA) without making HOEPA mandated disclosures.
Tolbert et al., v. Monsanto et al.,: a $seven-hundred million settlement towards Monsanto and Solutia on behalf of residents of Anniston, Alabama for pollutants with chemical substances called PCBs, which were banned by the USA authorities within the Seventies as a probable carcinogen;
Hughes v. Commercial Credit: a $2 million dollar settlement with Commercial Credit Corporation on behalf of Alabama Citizens regarding costs for credit score existence coverage;
Goodson v. Cherokee National: a $500 thousand greenback agreement on behalf of Alabama Citizens regarding costs for credit score existence coverage;
Ray W. McCleney, et al. v. MCD et al.,; a $310,000.00 agreement on behalf of Alabama workers for unpaid wages from a bankrupt organisation;
Reported Cases
Alabama State Appellate cases:
Knighten v. Bratcher, 586 So.second 14 (Ala. Civ. App. 1991)
Henderson v. State, 650 So.2d 532, (Ala. Crim. App. 1994)
American Legion Post No. 57 v. Leahy, 681 So.2nd 1337, (Ala. Sup. Ct. 1996)
Funderburg v. Black s Insurance Agency, 743 So.2nd 472, (Ala. Civ. App. 1999)
Springs Industries, Inc. v. Lowe, 1999 Ala. Civ. App. Lexis 736 (October 8, 1999)
Ex parte Herron, 1999 Ala. Lexis three, (January 8, 1999)
Waples v. Pinson, 781 So. second 182 (Ala. Civ. App., 2000)
Eleventh Circuit Cases:
United States v. Pounds, 50 F.3d 1038 (1995)
United States v. Virgil, one zero five F.3d 672 (1997)
MS Dealer Service Corporation v. Franklin, 177 F.3d 942
Pelfrey v. Educational Credit Management Corp, 208 F.3d 945, (April 6, 2000) Cunningham v. Fleetwood Homes of Ga., 253 F.3d 611 (eleventh Cir., 2001) Heimmermann v. First Union Mortg. Corp., 305 F.3d 1257 (September 18, 2002) Greer v. O Dell, 305 F.3d 1297, 1303 (11th Cir., 2002)
U.S. District Court Cases:
Braxton v. Farmer s Ins. Group, 209 F.R.D. 654 (N.D. Ala September sixteen, 2002);
Wood v. Cooper Chevrolet, Inc., 2000 U.S. Dist. Lexis 14958 (May 1, 2000)
Heimmermann v. First Union Mortgage Corporation, 188 F.R.D. 403, (N. D. of Ala.1999)
MS Dealer Service Corporation v. Franklin, 1999 U.S. Dist. Lexis 10662
Pelfrey v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, 1999 U.S. Dist. Lexis 16788 In re Diet Drugs Prods. Liab. Litig., 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11479 (D. Pa., 2001) Clark v. Experian Info. Solutions, Inc., 2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22908 (D.S.C., 2003) Baynes v. ALLTEL Wireless of Ala., Inc., 322 F. Supp. second 1307 (D. Ala., 2004)
Bankruptcy Cases:
In re Tudors, seventy seven B.R. 904, (Bankr. N. D. of Ala., 1987). In re Malkove and Womack, Inc., 122 B.R. 444, (Bankr. N.D. Ala.1990) In re Malkove and Womack, Inc., 134 B.R. 965, (Bankr N. D. of Ala.1991) Roper v. American Health and Fire Insurance Company (In re Roper), 203 B.R. 326, (Bankr. N.D. Ala., 1996) In re Tippins, 221 B.R. eleven, (Bankr. N.D. Ala. 1998) Knepp v. Credit Acceptance Corporation (In re Knepp), 229 B.R. 821,(Bankr. N.D. Ala., January 29, 1999) In re Odell, 251 B.R. 602, (Bankr. N.D. of Ala. August 2, 2000) Holcombe v. Debis Fin. Servs. (in Re Holcombe), 284 B.R. 141 (Bankr. D. Ala., 2001)
Professional Activities and Affiliations
* Association of Trial Lawyers America
* Alabama Trial Lawyers Association
* American Bar Association Mediator listed on the Alabama Mediator Roster
* National Association of Consumer Advocates
* has club of the following:
o The State Bar of Alabama
o Northern District of Alabama
o Middle District of Alabama
o Southern District of Alabama
o U.S. Claims Court
o Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
o U.S. Supreme Court
o Mobile County Bar Association
o Stanley Baldwin County Bar Association
o National Board of Trial Advocacy
Academic Background
B.S. Jacksonville State University 1976
J.D. Birmingham School of Law 1985
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Competitive costs on customer financial ruin.
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