She has significant experience in representing various banks and institutional lenders in retail, health care, multi-family, office, and industrial loan transactions, as well as commercial foreclosures/deed in lieu, workouts and restructures of defaulted real estate loans, receivership proceedings, and defaulted bond issues. Her developer experience includes retail, office, mixed-use, medical office, as well as residential communities. She has extensive experience in buying and selling all types of commercial properties, as well as recapitalization of existing properties and acquisition of distressed assets and defaulted loans.
Gail has extensive experience representing developers in economic incentive transactions with various cities for the development of commercial projects throughout the State of Alabama. In each of these transactions, she worked closely with the Mayor and City Councils in finalizing various development agreements.
Gail was admitted to the American College of Real Estate Attorneys in 2003 and is presently the only woman member of ACRE from the State of Alabama. She has been listed as one of The Best Lawyers in America since 2002 and has been listed in Chambers USA America’s Leading Business Lawyers since 2005. She was also named by Chambers USA in the “2009 Leaders in their Field.” In addition, Gail has been named to the Alabama Super Lawyers every year since its inception in 2008 . She is also one of three lawyers from Burr & Forman LLP who were named in the 2007 LawDragon 500 Dealmakers magazine that lists U.S. lawyers who handle headline-making transactions.
Gail taught a commercial real estate transactions class as an adjunct professor at the University of Alabama School of Law in the spring of 2008.
Gail received her J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1985, where she was a member of the Alabama Law Review. She graduated magna cum laude from Birmingham-Southern College in 1982.
She has significant experience in representing various banks and institutional lenders in retail, health care, multi-family, office, and industrial loan transactions, as well as commercial foreclosures/deed in lieu, workouts and restructures of defaulted real estate loans, receivership proceedings, and defaulted bond issues. Her developer experience includes retail, office, mixed-use, medical office, as well as residential communities. She has extensive experience in buying and selling all types of commercial properties, as well as recapitalization of existing properties and acquisition of distressed assets and defaulted loans.
Gail has extensive experience representing developers in economic incentive transactions with various cities for the development of commercial projects throughout the State of Alabama. In each of these transactions, she worked closely with the Mayor and City Councils in finalizing various development agreements.
Gail was admitted to...
Personal Q&A
What is your favorite thing about the law?
That you learn something different every day!
What was your first job?
My father built the first poultry processing plant in the state of Alabama in the late 1940’s. My first job was working summers in the plant where I added chicken weights all day long, did the bills of lading for the truckers, and was sent to the very back of the plant daily to get soft drinks for the office staff— nobody wanted to walk through the plant because of the drippings that landed on you from the processing line!
What are your hobbies?
Vegetable and rose gardening; exercise; Alabama football.
What advice would you give to a young student in law school?
Never skip class for any reason! You have to study the materials over and over until you get the “big picture” and it “clicks” in your head.
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What is your favorite thing about the law?
That you learn something different every day!
What was your first job?
My father built the first poultry processing plant in the state of Alabama in the late 1940’s. My first job was working summers in the plant where I added chicken weights all day long, did the bills of lading for the truckers, and was sent to the very back of the plant daily to get soft drinks for the office staff— nobody wanted to walk through the plant because of the drippings that landed on you from the processing line!
What are your hobbies?
Vegetable and rose gardening; exercise; Alabama football.
What advice would you give to a young student in law school?
Never skip class for any reason! You have to study the materials over and over until you get the “big picture” and it “clicks” in your head.
How do you define a “good day”?
When I get to the Y at lunch to exercise.