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R. Alan Alexander

Helmsing, Leach, Herlong, Newman & Rouse, P.C.
  • Recognized Since:
    2007
  • Recognized in:
    Health Care Law
    Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants...
  • Website:
    http://www.helmsinglaw.com
  • E-mail:
    raa@helmsinglaw.com
  • Location:
    The LaClede Building, Suite 2000
    150 Government Street
    P.O. Box 2767
    Mobile, AL 36652
Mr. Alexander has over twenty-five years’ experience representing hospitals, health care providers and lawyers in the defense of professional liability claims.  He has tried to verdict in excess of fifty malpractice cases in both state and federal courts of Alabama, and has successfully handled appeals of cases in the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, the Supreme Court of Alabama, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United
States.

Beginning his legal career as a Law Clerk and later Staff Attorney to the Honorable Sam Taylor on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals in Montgomery, Mr. Alexander returned to his home in Mobile, where he has maintained a thriving professional liability defense practice since 1984.  A graduate of the Defense Counsel Trial Academy of the International Association of Defense Counsel (1987), Mr. Alexander is an author and frequent lecturer on issues related to the defense of professional liability claims and witness effectiveness training and techniques.  He has served the Alabama defense bar as a Member, Board Member and President (2006 – 2007) of the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, and is a Member of the Defense Research Institute, from which he received an Exceptional Performance Citation in 2007.

Mr. Alexander is a member of the Alabama State Bar, and the Mobile Bar Association (Ethics,
Inter-Professional Relations, Public Relations, Civil Procedure and Grievance Committees).
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Mr. Alexander has over twenty-five years’ experience representing hospitals, health care providers and lawyers in the defense of professional liability claims.  He has tried to verdict in excess of fifty malpractice cases in both state and federal courts of Alabama, and has successfully handled appeals of cases in the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, the Supreme Court of Alabama, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United
States.

Beginning his legal career as a Law Clerk and later Staff Attorney to the Honorable Sam Taylor on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals in Montgomery, Mr. Alexander returned to his home in Mobile, where he has maintained a thriving professional liability defense practice since 1984.  A graduate of the Defense Counsel Trial Academy of the International Association of Defense Counsel (1987), Mr. Alexander is an author and frequent lecturer on issues related to the defense of professional liability claims and witness effectiveness training and techniques.  He has served the Alabama defense bar as a Member, Board Member and President (2006 – 2007) of the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, and is a Member of the Defense Research Institute, from which he received an Exceptional Performance Citation in 2007.

Mr. Alexander is a member of the Alabama State Bar, and the Mobile Bar Association (Ethics,
Inter-Professional Relations, Public Relations, Civil Procedure and Grievance Committees).
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Education:

  • University of South Alabama, B.Sc., graduated 1978

Bar Admissions:

  • Alabama, Alabama State Bar Association

Affiliations:

  • Alabama Defense Lawyers Association (ADLA) - Past President and Board Member
  • American Health Lawyers Association - Member Professional Liability and Fraud & Abuse Substative Committees
  • Defense Research Institute (DRI) - Member Professional Liability and Medical Liability Committees

Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers for:

  • Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants, Mobile (2018)
 

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:

  • Health Care Law
  • Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants
  • Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
  • Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

State Clerkships:

  • Alabama - Court of Appeals

Areas of Expertise:

  • Dental
  • Hospital Malpractice
  • Hospitals
  • Litigation
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Medical Negligence
  • Nurses
  • Personal Injury
  • Wrongful Death
 

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Helmsing, Leach, Herlong, Newman & Rouse, P.C.
http://www.helmsinglaw.com
 
Headquarters
The LaClede Building, Suite 2000
150 Government Street
P.O. Box 2767
Mobile, AL 36652
(251) 432.5521
 
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