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ATRA Legal Reform Champion:
Matthew McDonald
Matthew
C. McDonald, a leader in the civil justice reform movement, is a partner
with Miller Hamilton Snider & Odom. He has been especially active in the
southeastern United States, both as general counsel of the Alabama Civil
Justice Reform Committee, and as the widely recognized principal
proponent of lawsuit reform laws passed in 1987 and 1999 in a region
notorious for massive damage awards.
Matt also worked closely on the
successful Alabama Supreme Court races from 1994 through 2002 that saw
the election of fair and balanced justices to that court. He is a
graduate of Vanderbilt University and the University of Alabama, where
he was a Hugo L. Black Scholar and M. Leigh Harrison Scholar. He also
served on the editorial board of the Alabama Law Review, and is
currently a member of the Mobile, Alabama, and American Bar
Associations.
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