BUTLER SNOW - Key Persons
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- Member of the Board of Directors
Alex is a member of Butler Snow's Tort, Transportation and Specialized Litigation group.
Practice Areas
Tort, Transportation & Specialized Litigation
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- Member of Butler Snow 's Tort
- Professionals
Alléna is a member of Butler Snow's Tort, Transportation and Specialized Litigation group. She focuses her practice on insurance defense and legal, medical and professional malpractice.
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- Member of the Diversity and Inclusivity Committee
Amanda focuses her practice on administrative and regulatory law, governmental litigation, and election and campaign finance law. Before joining Butler Snow, she served as Counsel to Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour after twelve years of general litigation practice.
Practice Areas
Administrative Law
Amanda Tollison focuses her practice on administrative law, regulatory compliance, zoning and land use, governmental litigation, legal and governmental ethics, and election and campaign finance law. Much of her recent work includes serving as compliance counsel for various tax exempt entities, representation of governing authorities in various appeals to the circuit and appellate courts, as well as ongoing representation of industry clients in environmental permitting and compliance matters.
Before joining Butler Snow, she served as counsel to Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour where she coordinated and oversaw outside counsel in litigation matters and advised the Governor on judicial appointments, state disasters, bond commission meetings, and election and budget-related matters. Prior to her public service, Amanda had a general litigation practice.
Amanda is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Administrative/Regulatory Law and Product Liability Litigation-Defendants, and her work has been recognized by Mid-South Super Lawyers®. Additionally, she recently served as President of The Mississippi Bar (2019-2020) and has previously served as President of the Young Lawyers Division of The Mississippi Bar (2005-2006) and in several other local and regional leadership positions as well.
She obtained her J.D. from the University of Mississippi and is admitted to The Mississippi Bar, the U.S. District Courts for both Districts of Mississippi and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Experience
Representation of Public Entities and Private Clients in Federal, State and Local Courts and before Governing Bodies and Administrative Agencies as well as Serving as Compliance Counsel for various Non-Profit Organizations
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- President of the Board of Directors
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- Member of Butler Snow 's Public Finance
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Bailey Williams is a member of Butler Snow's Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets group and focuses her practice on tax-exempt and taxable bond financing across a broad spectrum of industries including healthcare and senior living facilities, charter schools, affordable housing and traditional municipal finance.
Practice Areas
Public Finance
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- Assistant
- Assistant Practice Group Leader for Butler Snow 's Public Finance
- Professionals
Blake Sharpton is the Assistant Practice Group Leader for Butler Snow's Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets Group. He focuses his practice on public finance, commercial lending and debt financing, and mergers and acquisitions. He represents school districts, cities, counties, development authorities, educational institutions, and underwriters across Georgia and other states. Blake has extensive experience serving as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, bank counsel, borrower's counsel and underwriter's counsel on a wide variety of tax-exempt and taxable bond transactions. Blake focuses primarily on traditional municipal finance projects such as new educational and general municipal facilities. Blake also routinely works on economic impact projects and transactions such as sports stadiums, entertainment venues, multi-use developments, multi-family housing developments, retail developments, hotels, and airports.
Practice Areas
Public Finance
Bob Cannada is elected Chairman of the firm, serving in that role for 25 years.
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- Director of Practice Support
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- Member of Butler Snow' Products
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Bryony is a member of Butler Snow' Products, Catastrophic and Industrial Litigation group. She is experienced in representing clients in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases, including cases with automobiles, tractor trailers, and aircrafts.
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- Vice President of the Board of Directors
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Executive Committee Member / Executive Committee Member / Executive Committee Member
- Firm Chair
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- Chief Human Resources Officer
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Legal Elite - Public Finance, 2015, 2020
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- National Trial Competition - National Champion Team Member, 2019
Lex Mundi is an organization of independent law firms providing for the exchange of professional information about the local and global practice and development of law, facilitating and disseminating communications among its members, and improving the members' abilities to serve the needs of their respective clients. The Lex Mundi network provides clients access to the unparalleled global legal resources with its vast network of 160 premier member firms in more than 100 countries and offices in more than 600 business centers. By working with a Lex Mundi member firm, you can be quickly connected to in-depth local market knowledge and legal expertise practically anywhere your legal needs arise.
Lex Mundi member firms are leading indigenous full-service law firms. Unlike local branch offices of international law firms, member firms have developed the expertise most necessary in their jurisdiction. They have in-depth knowledge of the local laws, customs and judicial system, and can apprise clients of the area's business and political environments. Locally entrenched, Lex Mundi member firms have forged strong ties with their governments and business communities, and are able to help clients successfully navigate the local legal and business terrain.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Advisory Board
Burt is a trial lawyer who focuses on representing the needs of pharmaceutical and medical device companies, especially in the context of complex product liability matters. He is experienced in defending federal multidistrict litigation (MDLs), state court coordinated litigation, US and foreign class actions, as well as individual plaintiff cases. He served as lead or co-lead trial counsel in numerous trials. He has extensive experience in preparing and defending depositions and trial testimony of APEX witnesses, other high-level management, and corporate designees in both US and foreign litigations. He has led teams in the development of experts for US and foreign litigations and regularly works closely with lawyers around the world on expert, science, and regulatory matters. He also has significant experience in commercial litigation, class actions, mass torts, AG litigation, and IP litigation. Burt also is an expert in drug and medical device medical, clinical, quality and regulatory issues in the US, EU, and other foreign jurisdictions. He routinely counsels and guides clients through FDA, EU MDR and other complex foreign multi-jurisdiction regulatory and legal issues. He also has extensive experience counseling clients in their response to foreign governments and litigation, third parties, and the media.
Burt's experience includes representing Ethicon, Inc. and Johnson & Johnson in MDL and state court litigation, Attorney General Litigation, as well as foreign litigation and other non-litigation matters involving medical devices. He has developed experts, taken and defended expert witness depositions and prepared expert witnesses for trial. He has led the expert team in the US and Foreign litigations and has overseen the recruitment of a very large number of experts to defend the client. He is trial counsel in certain state court cases. He has also prepared and defended the depositions of several company witnesses including Apex witnesses, Board members, upper management, and corporate designees. He has been lead counsel with foreign lawyers across numerous litigations, regulatory matters, and investigations. Burt also represents AbbVie and Allergan in federal and state court personal injury and class action litigation. He works with and prepares company witnesses and leads the expert team. He also assists the company in US and foreign regulatory and scientific matters and investigations. Burt has also served on trial teams involving a wide variety of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, including Baycol®, Fen-Phen, Vioxx® and Seroquel®. He is an effective and very experienced leader of national expert teams. Burt has unique and industry leading know-how in handling large volumes of MDL cases requiring expert reports and depositions and has extensive experience developing and preparing expert witnesses for trial. He has also played a key role in the coordination of complex, national discovery efforts on behalf of many well-known pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Burt frequently works hand-in-hand with in-house counsel, company management and personnel, and foreign lawyers on medical, clinical, quality and regulatory issues as well as litigation in the US, EU, and other countries. He has extensive experience counseling and guiding clients through FDA, MDD and MDR regulatory compliance, submissions, inquiries and inspections, recalls, Field Safety Corrective Actions, and holds, and other matters with regulators and notified bodies. He has experience in evaluating and enhancing quality system documentation, clinical evaluation reports, device risk assessments, clinical study protocols and reports, post market surveillance, labeling, professional education and user materials, websites, and promotional materials. He also has extensive experience counseling clients in their response to media, foreign government bodies, and other third parties.
Burt brings a deep understanding of science, clinical studies and medicine allowing him to effectively communicate with internal company experts on these topics and analyze the benefit/risk profile of the product and design of medical devices. He also brings his unique and extensive experience in handling drug and medical device cases, working with company leadership, leading expert teams and trying cases to his counseling of clients on FDA and foreign regulatory issues as well as foreign litigation and issues in the press, giving clients a big picture strategic, legal and business understanding when seeking to protect their products and brand.
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- Practice Management Partner
Barry Cannada focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, complex business transactions and finance and restructuring. He has extensive experience in various transactional advisory services, capital formation, joint ventures, private placements, financings (including distressed financings). He formerly served as the Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel overseeing all the administrative functions for a client earning approximately $3 billion in revenues and employing approximately 20,000 employees. Barry is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America®, Chambers USA and Mid-South Super Lawyers® for his work in corporate law.
Practice Areas
Organization & Capital Formation
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- Treasurer of the Board of Directors
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- Director of Strategic Pricing and Analysis
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Firm General Counsel
ULM Mock Trial Team - 2016 American Mock Trial Association Regional Outstanding Attorney Award
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- Director of Facilities & Operations