Christian & Small is pleased to announce that the Birmingham Business Journal (BBJ) has named Partner Sharon D. Stuart one of its 2019 “Best of the Bar” honorees, which “recognizes attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their fields or specific practice areas and are shaping the local economy.”
As part of her “Best of the Bar” profile, Stuart provided answers to several questions posed by the BBJ, which can be found below:
- Practice Area: Business, insurance, product liability litigation, and class and mass actions
- How many years have you practiced law? 28 years
- Law school: Cumberland School of Law
- What the hot topic in your practice area? Cyber security, across all types and lines of business
- What’s your most memorable case? The “Average Wholesale Pricing” litigation filed by the state of Alabama against much of the prescription drug manufacturing industry. We defended and ultimately won the first case, which helped end the litigation against many remaining defendants.
- What’s an interesting client request? To eat at a different barbecue place across the state of Alabama every time the client visited. It became a mission.
Stuart most recently was elected to represent Place 3 on the Birmingham Bar Association Executive Committee. She is Immediate Past President of the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association and is active in the International Association of Defense Counsel, where she currently chairs its Insurance and Reinsurance Committee. She is a member of the Women in the Law Steering Committee for the Defense Research Institute, where she has held numerous positions furthering diversity and women’s initiatives. Stuart is a Master Bencher of both the Arthur D. Shores – Robert S. Vance American Inn of Court (Birmingham) and the Judge James Edwin Horton American Inn of Court (Cumberland School of Law).
Outside the legal community, she serves on Samford University’s Board of Trustees, on the Board of Directors for M-Power Ministries, as a Director of Attorneys Insurance Mutual of the South Risk Retention Group, and formerly as long-time Vice Chair of the Friends Advisory Board for WBHM Public Radio 90.3. She teaches an adult Sunday School class at Dawson Memorial Baptist Church and is an alumnus of both Samford University and its Cumberland School of Law. She is a graduate of the Leadership Birmingham Class of 2012, and was named by the Birmingham Business Journal as one of Birmingham’s 2017 “Women to Watch.”