Sarah Shepard

Matt enjoys a challenge. His creativity and ability to work outside conventional norms allow him to solve difficult legal and business problems and to enjoy a diverse practice. Matt has provided strategic guidance on and closed corporate and real estate transactions and successfully advocated and obtained favorable decisions before administrative tribunals, arbitrators, judges, and juries across the country involving, for example, prison conditions, the procurement of Mi-17 helicopters, cross...

Ben Hutton is a partner in the firm's Huntsville office, where he is member of the firm's Real Estate and Banking and Financial Services Practice Groups. His primary areas of practice include real estate, commercial lending, and general commercial transactions. His practice concentrates on all aspects of commercial real estate acquisition, development, leasing, sale and financing transactions involving a variety of property types. Ben's significant experience includes: representing purchasers...

Roderic G. Steakley is a partner in Dentons Sirote’s Huntsville, Alabama office, serving as chair of the Dentons Sirote Government Contracts practice group. Rod represents clients in complex commercial litigation, general and government contracts, and business related tort cases. He handles intellectual property disputes, such as trademark and copyright infringement. He also represents businesses in corporate issues and disputes, including breach of fiduciary duty, governance, and misap...

Frank Caprio chairs the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. He focuses on intellectual property law and assists clients in the protection and use of their intellectual property rights, and in the litigation of various technology-related disputes involving patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and computer issues. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America in both Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology Law. He is a retired ...

Laura W. Harper is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships). Laura W., who practices law in Huntsville, Alabama, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Laura W. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Mr. Kelly’s practice covers a wide range of civil litigation, with an emphasis on medical malpractice and appellate law. He has handled appeals involving many areas of the law, including medical malpractice, patent infringement, fraud, bad faith, employment law, premises liability, workers’ compensation, education law, and civil rights claims.

Joel R. Hamner stands among the top personal injury lawyers in Northern Alabama, earning recognition from Best Lawyers for his work in Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs and Workers’ Compensation Law – Claimants. Serving injured clients across Northern Alabama, Joel has been honored since 2023 through a rigorous peer-review process. This distinction reflects the respect he has earned from fellow attorneys who recognize his skill in handling serious injury and workers&rs...

Kim Martin is the managing partner of the Firm’s Huntsville office and a member of the Firm’s Board of Governors. She serves as the Co-Chair of the firm's Life Sciences Practice Group and focuses her practice on general litigation with an emphasis on medical device and pharmaceutical products liability litigation. She has represented multi-national pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers in litigation across the country. Most recently, she has been a national team member f...

Daniel is a member of Butler Snow’s Finance, Real Estate and Restructuring practice group. Before joining Butler Snow, Daniel was the Managing Partner for the Huntsville Office of a large Southeastern regional law firm, the Managing Shareholder of the Huntsville and Washington D.C. Offices and Chief Strategy Officer for a large national law firm, and General Counsel for The Wicks Companies in Huntsville.

Hall Bryant is a partner in the firm's Huntsville office. He concentrates his practice in the areas of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, securities law, corporate finance and general corporate advice. Hall works with a variety of clients in a broad range of industries, including high technology, government contracting, biotechnology, manufacturing, retail, distribution and financial services. As a member of the firm's Emerging Business Team, Hall has worked with numerous early stage com...