About John
John Chiles is a partner at Burr & Forman LLP which maintains offices in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee. John practices in the firm’s Birmingham, Alabama office in the Consumer Finance Practice Group of the Litigation Section. His current practice features a concentration on class action and mass action litigation in the area of mortgage and consumer finance law. John has served as lead counsel in numerous class actions and mass actions brought under an array of federal consumer protection statutes and state law theories.
John is Vice Chair for Programs of the Consumer Finance Committee of the ABA Business Law Section, and is a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association, the Conference on Consumer Finance Law, RESPRO, American Land Title Association, the National Association of Dealer’s Counsel, the MAP Division of the ACA, NARCA, the Banking Law Committee of American Bar Association Business Section, the Litigation Section of the ABA, and both the Alabama and Mississippi Consumer Finance Associations. He also serves as the Alabama state editor of HouseLaw. John has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America since 2007. John has also been included in the 2008,2009 and 2010 editions of Alabama Super Lawyers in the Class Action/ Mass Tort category and included in 2011 and 2012 of Alabama Super Lawyers in the area of Consumer Law.
John is graduate of Johns Hopkins University (1973) and the University of Alabama School of Law (1978). He is a member of the bar in the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Georgia and Florida and is admitted to practice before all U.S. District Courts in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Kentucky, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Fifth Circuit, Sixth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.