W. Scott Simpson

Position: Founding and Managing Partner

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Professional and Academic:

• Founding partner of Ritchey, Simpson & Glick, PLLC
• Adjunct Professor of Law, Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, 2003 - present. Regularly Teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Law
• J.D. degree from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, Magna Cum Laude (graduated 5th in class) in 1993
• Post Graduate work at the University of Alabama, Birmingham Graduate School of Business
• Earned a B.A. degree, with honors (graduated 6th in class) from the University of Florida in 1989

Law school awards and memberships: 

• Curia Honoris, 1994
• Presidential Scholarship Recipient
• Leadership Scholarship Recipient
• Research Editor, Cumberland Law Review, 1992-93
• Cumberland Law Review, 1991-93
• Justice, Honor Court, 1991-93
• Cumberland Trial Board, 1992-93
• Cumberland Moot Court Board, 1992-93
• Dean’s List and National Dean’s List, 1991-93
• Who’s Who Among American Law Students
• Best Advocate, Robert B. Donworth Appellate Argument Comp., 1992
• Finalist (2nd Place), Judge James O. Haley Federal Court Comp., 1992
• American Jurisprudence Book Award - Constitutional Law I
• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
• Cordell Hull Teaching Fellow

Courts:

• Admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 1993
• Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court
• Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
• Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
• United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama
• Tried and/or mediated cases in twelve states
• Managed litigation for Southern Energy Homes, Inc., as its Assistant General Counsel, 1999-2006, in twenty states

Publications:

• W. Scott Simpson and Gordon Blair, The Magnuson Moss Act Defense to Arbitration: What’s Left After Davis v. Southern Energy Homes, Inc., 64 Ala. Law. 367 (November 2003)
• W. Scott Simpson, Stephan J. Ware &  Vickie M. Willard, The Source of Alabama’s Abundance of Arbitration Cases: Alabama’s Bizarre Law of Damages for Mental Anguish, 28 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 135 (2004)
• W. Scott Simpson and Omer Kesikli, The Contours of Arbitration Discovery, 67 Ala. Law. 280 (2006).

Reported Decisions:

Southern Energy Homes, Inc. v. Ard, 772 So. 2d 1131 (Ala. 2000)
Southern Energy Homes, Inc. v. Nalley, 777 So. 2d 99 (Ala. 2000)
Southern Energy Homes Retail Corp. v. McCool, 814 So. 2d 845 (Ala. 2001)
Parkerson v. Smith, 817 So. 2d 529 (Miss. 2002)
Ex parte Thicklin, 824 So. 2d 723 (Ala. 2002)
Walton v. Rose Mobile Homes, L.L.C., 298 F.3d 470 (5th Cir.  2002)
Davis v. Southern Energy Homes, Inc., 305 F.3d 1268 (11th Cir. 2002), cert. denied 123 S. Ct. 1633 (2003)
Ex parte Southern Energy Homes, Inc., 873 So. 2d 1116 (Ala. 2003)
In re Healthsouth Corp. Ins. Litigation, 308 F.Supp. 2d 1253 (N.D. Ala. 2004)
Jones-Williams Construction Co., Inc. v. Town & Country Property, L.L.C., 923 So. 2d 321 (Ala. Civ. App. 2005)
Patriot Manufacturing Co. v. Jackson, 929 So. 2d 997 (Ala. 2005)
Johnson v. Southern Energy Homes, Inc., 391 F. Supp.2d 1118 (S.D. Ala. 2005)
Wilson v. Style Crest Products, Inc., 627 S.E.2d 733 (S.C. 2006)
Joseph v. MTS Investment Corp., 964 So. 2d 642 (Ala. 2006)
Murphy v. Southern Energy Homes, Inc., No. 2:06-cv-618-MEF (WO), 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52111 (M.D. Ala. July 18, 2007)
Redman Home Builders Co. v. Lewis, 513 F. Supp.2d 1299 (S.D. Ala. 2007),see also Redman Home Builders Co. V. Lewis amendment.

Law Courses, Speeches and Legal Seminars:
International

• Appellate Mediation, March 25, 2004, presented before the Appellate Courts of Brazil, San Paulo, Brazil
• Environmental Law in the United States, March 22 - 24, 2004, presented at three campuses of the Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (the largest law school in Brazil) in San Paolo, Brazil
• Taught International Arbitration at Cambridge University, Cambridge England, July 2006
• Taught Alternative Dispute Resolution at Cambridge University, Cambridge England, July 2008

Domestic

• Hot Topics in Banking Law:  Class Action Arbitrations in Alabama, February 15, 2008
• Presented at the “2008 Banking Law” Seminar for the Alabama Bar Institute for Continuing Legal Education: Practice Pointers in Arbitration from the Defendant’s Perspective, October 26, 2007
• Presented at the “Keys to Successful Arbitration” Seminar for the Cumberland School of Law Continuing Legal Education Seminar in Birmingham, Alabama, October 26, 2007
• Moderator of the “Keys to Successful Arbitration” Seminar for the Cumberland School of Law Continuing Legal Education Seminar in Birmingham, Alabama, October 26, 2007
• Presented The Contours of Arbitration Discovery: Discovery Before, During and After the Hearing, April 28, 2005, at the “Do We Need Discovery in Arbitration?” Seminar for the American Arbitration Association in Birmingham, Alabama
• Moderator of the “How to Win in Arbitration” Seminar for the Cumberland School of Law Continuing Legal Education Seminar in Birmingham, Alabama, October 29, 2004
• Presented Drafting an Enforceable Consumer Arbitration Agreement, October 29, 2004, at the “How to Win in Arbitration” Seminar for the Cumberland School of Law Continuing Legal Education Seminar in Birmingham, Alabama
• Presented Mediation Strategies and Current Issues in Arbitration, October 25, 2002, at the “Pre-Trial Practice and Procedure” Seminar for the Alabama Bar Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Birmingham, Alabama
• Presented Arbitration of Consumer Claims – the Southern Homes Experience, April 26, 2001, at the “Top Gun” Litigation Management Super Course for the Network of Trial Law Firms, Inc. in San Diego, California

Professional Credentials:

• Registered Mediator
• Registered Appellate Mediator
• Registered Arbitrator
• Commercial Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association
• Real Estate Broker, Alabama
• Notary Public

Personal:

Married to Patti Simpson with five children.  Born in Pittsburgh, PA., 1967; grew up in central Florida; settled in Birmingham since 1990.