Experience

Education

RANDY QUARLES has represented financial institutions and other businesses in a wide range of litigation, including shareholder derivative actions, class actions and complex commercial disputes.  In addition to his law practice, he has served as an adjunct instructor and co-director of the Judicial Externship Program at The University of Alabama School of Law.  He is admitted to practice in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.  His experience includes trial and appellate practice in state and federal courts; arbitrations; financial services litigation; insurance defense; and commercial litigation.  Randy has received Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating of AV® Preeminent.
Partner, Quarles Law Firm, LLC, 2009-present
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Adjunct Instructor and Co-Director of Judicial Externship Program, The University of Alabama School of Law, 2005-2021
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Partner, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP, Birmingham, Alabama, 2005-2008
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Partner, Walston, Wells, Anderson & Birchall, LLP, Birmingham, Alabama, 2000-2005
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Associate, Walston, Wells, Anderson & Bains, LLP, Birmingham, Alabama, 1993-1999
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Law Clerk to the Hon. Emmett Ripley Cox, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 1992-1993

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ArmSouth Bank v. Florida Department of Insuance,
772 So. 2d 747 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000)

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Pension & Employee Stock Ownership Plan Administrative Committee of Community Bancshares, Inc. v. Patterson, 
        547 F. Supp. 2d 1230 (N.D. Ala. 2008)
 
Carter v. MGA, Inc.,
        189 Fed. Appx. 893 (11th Cir. 2006)
 
AmSouth Bank v. Looney,
        883 So. 2d 1207 (Ala. 2003)
 
Armstrong Business Services, Inc. v. AmSouth Bank,
        817 So. 2d 665 (Ala. 2001)
   

AmSouth Investment Services, Inc. v. Bhuta,
757 So. 2d 1120 (Ala. 2000)

United Food & Commercial Workers Unions, Employers Health and Welfare Fund v. Philip Morris, Inc.,
223 F.3d 1271 (11th Cir. 2000)

McCormack v. AmSouth Bank, N.A.,
759 So. 2d 538 (Ala. 1999)

City of Birmingham v. American Tobacco Co.,
10 F. Supp. 2d 1257 (N.D. Ala. 1998)

Ex parte AmSouth Bank, N.A.,
675 So. 2d 1305 (Ala. 1996)

Hugo L. Black U.S. Courthouse, Birmingham

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     Reported Cases

  
Butler v. Alabama Judicial Inquiry Comm'n,
        802 So. 2d 207 (Ala. 2001)
 

  
  
AmSouth Bank v. Wynne,
        772 So. 2d 574 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000)

  
Lawler v. Johnson,

253 So. 3d 939 (Ala. 2017)

J.D., University of Alabama, 1992; Order of the Coif; Editor-in-Chief, Alabama Law Review
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M.A., The Ohio State University, 1987;  Kiplinger Fellow
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B.A., magna cum laude, University of Alabama, 1977; Phi Beta Kappa

Randy Quarles