Sidney Jackson

Sidney Jackson conducts cases involving business disputes, investor disputes, insurance bad faith and deceptive sales practices, and product liability. Certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, he is an AV-rated lawyer and is a member of the local, state, federal, and U.S. Supreme Court bar associations. Sid has considerable appellate practice in Alabama and elsewhere including oral argument before the United States Supreme Court. The focus of our practice is client satisfaction, and that is what we strive for. In addition to a busy trial practice, Sid enjoys performing volunteer work for the Mobile Volunteer Lawyers Program (2009 Lawyer of the Year), his church, and community. He and his wife Alyson have five children.

Practice areas

• Personal injury
• Automobile accidents
• Product liability
• Insurance fraud
• Medical negligence

Bar admissions

• Alabama, 1982
• U.S. District Court, Southern and Middle Districts of Alabama, 1982
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit, 1982
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1996
• S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, 2013

Education

• J.D.,  Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, 1982
• B.A., Corporate Finance, University of Alabama, 1979

Professional memberships

• Alabama State Bar
  • President, Young Lawyers Section, 1992 – 1993
  • Member, Executive Committee, Young Lawyers Section, 1986
• Mobile Bar Association
  • President, Young Lawyers Section, 1989
• American Bar Association
• American Association for Justice
• Alabama Association for Justice
• Southwest Alabama Trial Lawyers Association

Honors

• AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated^SM by Martindale-Hubbell®
• Recognized as A Top Attorneys in Alabama by Business Alabama Magazine 2010, 2013
• Nominated for the Alabama State Bar Pro Bono Award, 2010
• Recognized as one of the Top 100 Trial Attorneys by The American Trial Lawyers Association 2009-2012

Reported cases

• Oral Argument to U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of respondents in Kuhmo Tire Company, Ltd, et al v. Patrick Carmichael, et al, Supreme Court 97-1709
• Foster v. Life Insurance Company of Georgia, 656 So.2d 333 (Ala. 1994)
• Life Insurance Company of Georgia v. Johnson, 701 So.2d 524 (Ala. 1997)
• Labat v. Mallard Bay Drilling, 806 So.2d 917 (La.App. 2002)
• Hicks v. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Arkansas, 2002 WL 1291743 (Ark. 2002)
• Woodruff v. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Alabama, 803 So.2d 519 (Ala. 2003)
• Ex Parte Howell, 704 So.2d 479 (Ala. 1997)
• Lawley v. Chevron Chemical Company, Inc., 720 So.2d 918 (Ala. Civ. App. 1997).
• Lead Class Counsel: Phelan v. Life Insurance Company of Georgia
• Woodruff v. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Alabama
• Hicks v. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Arkansas
• Class Counsel: Castano v. American Tobacco Company, et al.
• Jeanne M. Teter v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company 97L114 (First Judicial Circuit IL)

Born

• Luverne, Alabama, 1957