Elizabeth graduated from Vanderbilt University and began her career
as a television producer and writer for CBS News, Lifetime Television,
and WWOR-TV, Channel 9, among others. Elizabeth later graduated from
Pace University School of Law, studying environmental law under Robert
F. Kennedy, Jr. and litigating cases in the Pace Environmental
Litigation Clinic.
After law school, Elizabeth completed a one-year federal clerkship
for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She
then worked for five years as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the
New York City Law Department, handling high profile, high liability
cases in the Special Litigation Unit. Elizabeth also spent a year
working as a producer on a start-up court show for CBS, Inc. and King
World Productions.
Shortly after the events of 9/11 in 2001, Elizabeth moved with her
two daughters, now 27 and 22, from New York City to Daphne, Alabama.
After working at a defense firm in Mobile, she began practicing law in
Daphne, and specializes in civil litigation/trial work. Elizabeth
focuses her practice on insurance bad faith and breach of contract
claims, personal injury, including automobile and truck accidents,
wrongful death cases, insurance claims arising out of natural
disasters (i.e., hail, hurricanes, and wind storms), other insurance
claims, and fraud.
Elizabeth is admitted to practice law in Alabama, Mississippi, New
York, and Connecticut, as well as the United States District Courts of
the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, the United States Supreme Court, and
Poarch Creek Indians Tribal Court. She has been active with the
Alabama Association for Justice, Mobile County Bar and Baldwin Bar
Associations, Paul W. Brock Inn of Court, Mobile Junior League, and
Girl Scouts of Southern Alabama. Elizabeth has served on the Boards
of the National Conference of Community and Justice, Southern Region,
the Gulf Shores Community Theater, and the Eastern Shore Chamber of
Commerce, and was President of the Women Lawyers of the Mobile Bar
Association in 2009-10. She has given talks and made television
appearances on legal matters and breaking news, and had a regular
on-air morning segment, Legal Advice, on WKRG-TV, CBS.
Elizabeth has produced historical videos, including A Tribute to J.
Gorman Houston, Jr., in honor of Justice Houston’s years of
service from 1985-2004 as an Alabama Supreme Court Justice (archived
in the Alabama Archives), and a video in honor of Nathan Cox and his
battalion of marines fighting in Iraq and focusing on their
participation in Operations’ Iron Fist and Steel
Curtain. She was also the legal consultant and producer on the
historically based film, The North Star, based on a true slave
love story.
Elizabeth has published legal articles and written materials,
produced, worked on, and/or given talks on the following: The
North Star, an independent film, Doylestown, PA (Legal
Consultant; Producer), January 2012-Present; Managing Liens and
Subrogation in Auto Accident Litigation, Negotiating for
Favorable Allocation of Settlement Awards, National Business
Institute, Mobile, AL (Speaker), November, 2011
;
Entertainment Law, 2011 Bayfest Music Industry Education
Program, Mobile Civic Center, Mobile, AL (Speaker), September, 2011;
Find it Free and Fast on the Net,
Strategies for Legal Research on the Web, National Business
Institute (Author/Speaker), April 30, 2010; Handling Complex Auto
Insurance Coverage Disputes, Multiple Coverage, Uninsured
Motorist Offsets, Medicare Set-Asides and More!, National
Business Institute, Mobile, AL (Speaker), June, 2009 ; Successfully
Settling Your Personal Injury and Property Damage Claims, A
Plaintiff-Defense Presentation of Privilege Claims, Consent
Judgments, Liens and More, National Business Institute, Mobile,
AL (Author), March, 2009; Techniques for Winning Strong Settlement
Awards,
The Art of the Settlement, National Business Institute, Mobile,
AL (Author), May, 2008; Subrogation Information, Issues and
Answers, Automobile Litigation: Strategic Issues and
Answers, National Business Institute, Mobile, AL (Author/Speaker),
October 2007; Litigate or Mediate: Calculate Pros, Cons and Analyze
Issues,
Automobile Litigation: Strategic Issues and Answers
, National Business Institute, Mobile, AL (Author/Speaker), May
2007; Electronic Discovery/Evidence, Mobile and Baldwin County
Bench & Bar Conference, Point Clear, AL (Panelist/Speaker),
December 2008; Preparing Your Expert Witness for Deposition,
Advanced Expert Witness Deposition Tactics, National Business
Institute, Mobile, AL (Author/Speaker), September 2006; Lawyers and
the Media, Mobile & Baldwin County Bench & Bar
Conference, Point Clear, AL (Film/Media Producer), December 2005;
Judge Denies Gage Order in Prichard Sewer Lawsuit,
Mobile Register (Quoted), May 18, 2005; Balance in Journalism
Difficult to Achieve, Local Lawyer says, Mobile Register
(Featured/Quoted), July 31, 2004; The Trial, Mobile &
Baldwin County Bench & Bar Conference (Film/Media Producer),
December 2004, and; In the Name of Temporary Insanity: The
Case of Henry K. Thaw, Mental Floss magazine, Duke
University, August 2001.