Sid also conducts cases at his Mobile maritime law firm involving business disputes, investor disputes, insurance bad faith and deceptive sales practices, and product liability. Certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, he is an AV-rated lawyer and is a member of the local, state, federal, and U.S. Supreme Court bar associations. Sid has considerable appellate practice in Alabama and elsewhere including oral argument before the United States Supreme Court.

“The focus of our practice is client satisfaction,” and that is what we strive for. In addition to a busy trial practice, Sid enjoys performing volunteer work for the Mobile Volunteer Lawyers Program (2009 Lawyer of the Year), his church, and community. He and his wife Alyson have five children.

Education: University of Alabama (B.A., Corporate Finance, 1979); Cumberland School of Law of Samford University (J.D., 1982). Member, American Journal of Trial Advocacy. Speaker: “Daubert, Joiner, and Kuhmo Tire: What They Mean for Experts and Attorneys,” National Expert Witness and Litigation Seminar, Hyannis Maine, June 1999; “Scientific Evidence, Daubert and the Art of Evidence Presentation,” Federal Bar Association, Federal Litigation Section, Las Vegas Nevada, March 1999; “Qualifying and Expert/Challenging the Use of an Expert,” Alabama Bar Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Point Clear Alabama, October 1999; “Alabama Evidence Work Shop,” Professional Education Systems, Inc., Mobile Alabama. Contributing Author, “Succeeding as an Expert Witness,” ECI Communications, Inc., Harold A. Feder, Editor. Lecturer, Cumberland School of Law, 1993.

Member: Mobile (President, Young Lawyers Section, 1989) and American Bar Associations; Alabama State Bar (Member, Executive Committee, Young Lawyers Section, 1986; President, Young Lawyers Section, 1992-1993); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Southwest Alabama Trial Lawyers Association; Alabama Trial Lawyers Association.