THE WININGER LAW FIRM BIRMINGHAM - Key Persons
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David D. Wininger founded the Wininger Law Firm in Birmingham in 1964. For over 50 years, the Senior Member of the firm has assisted Alabama clients with cases related to Personal Injury Law, Divorce and Family Law, Will and Estate Planning and Workers Compensation. He has effectively represented thousands of Alabama men, women and children receive compensation for serious or catastrophic injuries from auto and commercial truck accidents, work injuries, school accidents, mining accidents, and defective product cases.
Mr. Wininger was educated in the Alabama public school system. He attended Howard College (now Samford University) and the Cumberland School of Law, where he was student body president. From 1982 to 1985, Mr. Wininger gave back to the community by serving as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cumberland. He has also served as a guest lecturer at the University of Alabama School of Law, Cumberland School of Law, Southeastern Trial Institute, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America Seminars and Conventions.
Martindale Hubbell has listed David D. Wininger as one of the Pre-Eminent Lawyers of America (AV rating). Along with his son, DeLeal Wininger, Jr., Mr. Wininger has won settlements and verdicts for his clients in the amount of $130 million dollars. He is an active member of the American Bar Association, the Alabama State Bar, The Birmingham Bar Association, The Alabama Trial Lawyers Association and other prestigious associations, including the Law Science Academy and the Melvin Belli Society, where he has served as Trustee since 1982. David D. Wininger is also a Member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served as co-counsel in the landmark case of Coleman and Stephens vs. Alabama, establishing the right to counsel at preliminary hearings. He has also served as a Special Judge, in the Civil Court of Jefferson County, Alabama.
In addition to his professional memberships, honors and career activities, he has written law reviews, monthly articles and legal handbooks for various publications. For 9 years, between 1974 and 1983, Mr. Wininger wrote a series of articles for The Journal of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association. In 1983, the Lawyers Co-Operative Publishing Company published his Trial Handbook for Alabama Lawyers.
Mr. Wininger does not limit his time to the field of law. He is an active member of the community and serves in many civic capacities. He was the past legal advisor to the Alabama Heart Association and Past President of the Alabama Jaycee Foundation. He served on the Alabama Special Olympics Executive Committee from 1970 to 1975. He presently serves on the Board of the American Baseball Foundation.
David D. Wininger has been on the board of Rickwood Field for decades. The stadium is one of the city's top five attractions and one of the country's most historic baseball fields. It was the creation of industrialist Rick Woodward. While still in his 20s, Woodward bought the city's professional baseball team, the Coal Barons. Baseball Hall of Famer Connie Mack designed "The Finest Minor League Ballpark Ever," which opened in 1910. The stadium was also the home of the American Negro League's Black Barrons.
David is also a long-time member of the board of the American Baseball Foundation. It's a nationally and internationally recognized organization co-founded by legendary sports medicine physician James R. Andrews, M.D. Its vision is to educate children through sports-based academics.
The New York Yankees mural by Stephen A. Smith on the firm's building dominates the cityscape on Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard North. It features Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Derek Jeter, and Yogi Berra. The mural is the result of a lifetime devotion of the Wininger family to the team.
The Wininger Law Firm, LLC, is the home of the Birmingham Artcycle. It offers free, donated art supplies that can be recycled into art rather than being added to landfills.
The firm is in The Whilldin Building, the former office of one of the state's most influential architects, David Oliver Whilldin. The structure was finished in 1924 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Wininger Law Firm, LLC, is proud to have renovated this nearly hundred-year-old building so it can be enjoyed now and in the future by Birmingham residents and visitors.
DeLeal Wininger, Jr. was educated in Alabama public schools. He attended Emory University and the Cumberland School of Law. He has been a Birmingham personal injury attorney at the Wininger Law Firm since 1987.