Susan J. Silvernail - Birmingham, AL

Overview

Awards and Honors

Education

• Legal Education

  • Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, 1990
    J.D.
    Honors: cum laude
    Honors: Member, Curia Honoris
    Law Review: Cumberland Law Review, Member

• Non Legal Education

  • Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, 1978
    B.A.
    Honors: With Honors

Current Employment Position(s)

• Attorney

Past Positions

• Pittman, Hooks, Marsh, Dutton, & Hollis, P.C., Attorney
• WBRC-TV News, Producer
• WSFA -TV News, Reporter
• WDHN-TV News, Anchor

Classes and Seminars

• Ethics for Evolving Technologies, Technology Seminar, Birmingham Bar Association, 2014
  
• "Internet Marketing for Lawyers", ABICLE 2008 Law Practice: Tips from Masters, December 17, 2008
  
• "Computer Access: Limitations & Remedies", ABICLE 2008 Tort Law Update, December 12, 2008
  
• "Thirty Sites in Thirty Minutes", ALAJ Sandestin Summer Seminar, June 2008
  
• "Metadata: What it is & Why You Should Care", ALAJ Seminar, April 9, 2008
  
• "E-Discovery", AAPI Winter Seminar, February 17, 2008
  
• "Metadata", Alabama Association for Justice, Summer Seminar, 2007 - Present
  
• New E-Discovery Rules: 2006 Amendments to FRCP, Birmingham Bar Association, 2006
  
• Basic Applications for Law Practice: PowerPoint, Birmingham Bar Association, 2006
  
• "New E-Discovery Rules: Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure", ATLA Mid-Winter Seminar, 2006
  
• "DeMystifying Electronic Discovery", NEALSA Seminar, 2005
  
• "E-Discovery: Preserving the Evidence", Discovery Update, ABICLE, 2004
  
• "Sure Fire Ways to Get into E-Trouble", ATLA Summer Seminar, 2004 - Present
  
• "Using PowerPoint in Civil Litigation", "Technology for the Law Office and Courtroom", Birmingham Bar Association, 2003
  
• "Making the Most of PowerPoint Presentations", ATLA, 2003
  
• "Your Guide to the Web", ATLA Mid-Winter Conference, 2003
  
• "Practice Tips on the Internet", Birmingham Bar Association, 2002
  
• "Top Ten Web Picks", ATLA Annual Seminar, 2000
  
• "Electronic Evidence: Discovery in the Computer Age", Business Torts and Antitrust Law Institute, ABICLE, 1998
  
• "Electronic Mail", The Litigator's Edge, ABICLE, 1997
  
• "Discovery of Electronic Data", The Woman Advocate, ABICLE, 1996
  
• "Electronic Evidence: Discovery in the Computer Age", The Litigator's Toolbox Seminar, ABICLE, 1996
  
• "Discovery of Electronic Data", Computers in Litigation Seminar, ABICLE, 1995

Pro Bono Activities

• Birmingham Bar Foundation, Board of Directors, Member
• Firehouse Shelter, Board of Directors, Former Member
• Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham, Board of Directors, Member, Former
• Alabama Civil Justice Foundation, Board of Directors, Member, Former
• Redmont School in the Waldorf Tradition, Board of Directors, Chair, Former

Published Works

Articles

• The Tort of Bad Faith and Avoiding the $250,000 Cap on Punitive Damages, The Alabama Lawyer, March, 1990
  
• "Electronic Evidence Discovery in the Computer Age", The Alabama Lawyer, May, 1997
  

Bar Admissions

• Alabama, 1990
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Alabama
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Alabama

Other Affiliations

• Alabama Civil Justice Foundation, 2007 - 2010 (Member, Board of Directors)
• Alabama State Bar, 1990 - Present (Member)
• Alabama Association for Justice, 1990 - Present (Member)
• American Association for Justice, 1990 - Present (Member)
• Birmingham Bar Association (Public Service Committee)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Legal Marketing Association, 2006 - Present (Member)