Sharon D. Stuart

Sharon D. Stuart


Christian & Small LLP

Recognized since 2009

Birmingham, Alabama

Practice Areas

Appellate Practice

Bet-the-Company Litigation

Commercial Litigation

Insurance Law

Litigation - Insurance

Litigation - Labor and Employment

Litigation - Securities

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2020 - Litigation - Insurance Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2018 - Insurance Law
Spinning circle Big letter B

Sharon Stuart devotes her practice to civil trial work and arbitration. She focuses on complex commercial and insurance litigation, and she handles a variety of product liability cases including pharmaceutical and medical device products liability litigation as national, regional or local counsel. Her trial experience includes a wide range of business tort claims, contract disputes, commercial and insurance fraud and bad faith suits, and wrongful death cases. She has defended dozens of class action lawsuits in areas as diverse as product liability/toxic tort, financial products, insurance and employment law.

Sharon’s approach is to become a business partner with her clients, to become fluent in their business, and to assist them with clearly defining their objectives and the process for meeting those goals. By collaborating in this way, she can provide the most effective counsel possible. Working closely with the offices of general counsel of several major corporations has afforded Sharon the opportunity to interact with business clients and develop an understanding of the dynamics associated with those relationships. This experience allows Sharon to steadily, yet diplomatically, guide her clients in lawfully accomplishing their business objectives.

Contact & Links
Location
  • Financial Center, Suite 1800
    505 North 20th Street
    Birmingham, AL 35203
Languages
  • English
Education
  • Samford University, graduated 1987
Bar Admissions
  • Texas, State Bar of Texas
  • Alabama, Alabama State Bar Association
Affiliations
  • American Bar Foundation - Member
  • Birmingham Bar Foundation - Member
  • Alabama Defense Lawyers Association (ADLA) - President (2017-2018); President-Elect (2016-2017); Secretary/Treasurer (2015-2016); Chair, Amicus Curiae Committee (2010-2016)
  • Alabama Law Foundation - Fellow
  • American Bar Association (ABA) - Member
  • American Inns of Court - Birmingham, Alabama - Master Bencher and member of the Formation Committee, Judge James Edwin Horton Inn, American Inns of Court; Member, Shores-Vance Inn of Court, American Inns of Court
  • Attorneys Insurance Mutual of the South, Risk Retention Group - Member, Board of Directors, and currently serving on the Executive, Underwriting and Marketing Committees of the Board
  • Birmingham Bar Association - Chairman, Long Range Planning Committee 2016 (Member, 2010-2017); Chairman, Civil Courts Procedures Committee (2008); Public Service Committee (2004); Chairman, Ethics Committee (2002-2003)
  • Defense Research Institute (DRI) - Women in the Law Committee, member of the Steering Committee; Chair of WITL Toolkit Task Force; Vice-Chair of Expert Database (2016); Vice-Chair of the State Liaisons (2013-2014)
  • International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) - Vice-Chair of Programs and Projects, Insurance and Reinsurance Committee; Vice-Chair of Communications, Class Actions and Multi-Party Litigation Committee; Member, Drug, Device and Biotech Committee; Member, Product Liability Committee
  • Samford University - Member, Board of Trustees
Federal Clerkships
  • United States District Court

Christian & Small LLP
Headquarters: Birmingham, Alabama

23 The Best Lawyers in America® awards

6 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards

Best Law Firms Badge Visit Website View Firm Profile

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2020 - Litigation - Insurance Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2018 - Insurance Law
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Litigation - Insurance, Birmingham (2020)
  • Insurance Law, Birmingham (2018)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 for work in:
  • Appellate Practice
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Insurance Law
  • Litigation - Insurance
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment
  • Litigation - Securities
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
  • Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Special Focus:
  • Civil Litigation
  • Class Actions
  • Complex Litigation
  • Insurance
  • Mass Tort
  • Product Liability
Awards:
  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 – 2016 in the categories of commercial litigation, labor & employment litigation, securities litigation, product liability defense litigation, mass tort litigation/class actions and insurance law
  • AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell
  • Selected for inclusion in Benchmark Appellate as Eleventh Circuit Litigation Star in Alabama 2012 and 2013
  • Selected for inclusion in Benchmark Litigation’s list of Alabama Future Litigation Stars 2009-2015
  • Selected for inclusion in Benchmark Top 250 Women in Litigation 2012-2014
  • Selected for inclusion in Alabama Super Lawyers® 2010-2015 in the fields of business litigation, insurance coverage, product liability defense
  • Selected for inclusion in Top 25 Women Alabama Super Lawyers® 2010-2015
  • Listed in the Birmingham Business Journal’s “Best of the Birmingham Bar” in Insurance Law
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Litigation - Environmental
  • Reinsurance Law

Spinning circle Big letter B

Spinning circle Big letter B

Spinning circle Big letter B

Defending against Claims of Bad Faith Failure to Settle


by Sharon D. Stuart

Recent lessons from the Eleventh Circuit.

Bad Faith Claims

Your browser is not fully compatible with our automatic printer friendly formatting.

Please use the print button to print this profile page.

Spinning circle Big letter B