About John
John practices in the firm’s Litigation section, and is the Head of the firm’s Consumer Finance Section. His current practice specializes in consumer finance and consumer class action litigation. He has served as liaison counsel for defendants in Multi-District Litigation proceedings involving a series of nationwide class actions arising out of non-filing insurance. John has handled more than 70 class action lawsuits in the past decade, representing many of the leading institutions in the United States in statewide and nationwide class action litigation. He has been Lead Counsel in hundreds of multiple-plaintiff mass actions in state and federal courts. He also has extensive experience in other types of business litigation, including complex business litigation, general consumer fraud, and product liability.
John is a member of the bar in the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Florida. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Birmingham Bar Association. He is admitted to practice before all U.S. District Courts in Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky as well as the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia and the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Fifth Circuit, Sixth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. John is affiliated with the Litigation Section, Class Action Section and Tort & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association and is a member of the Business Torts Section of the Alabama Bar Association. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the Mass Tort Litigation category. John has lectured on Insurance Law at the Cumberland School of Law and speaks at continuing legal education programs on class action and consumer finance law.
John received his B.A. in 1973 from Johns Hopkins University and his J.D. in 1978 from the University of Alabama School of Law. During law school, he was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, the Order of the Barristers and the National Moot Court Competition Team. He was also a Hugo Black Scholar and won the Walter P. Gewin Award.