Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC is pleased to announce that Stephanie Avant joined the firm as an associate.
“We are very pleased that Stephanie is joining us,” said Michael Sansbury, a partner with the firm. “Her professional background and experience will be a great asset to us and our clients.”
Avant is a graduate of the University of Montevallo and the University of Alabama School of Law, where she served as articles editor of The Journal of the Legal Profession and was a member of the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition Team, where she was awarded Outstanding Moot Court Team Member by the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association. Avant also belonged to the Order of Barristers, the Order of Samaritan, and the Bench and Bar Honor Society. Prior to joining the firm, Avant was a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Madeline Hughes Haikala of the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Before attending law school, Stephanie was a third-grade teacher for over ten years with Birmingham City Schools.
Founded in 2001, Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC is a boutique litigation firm in Birmingham, Alabama, specializing in complex business litigation. The firm has been involved in virtually every high-profile, complex litigation matter in Alabama in the past two decades. It is one of the few firms in America recognized, on the defense side, as a Go-To Law Firm by Corporate Counsel Magazine and, on the plaintiffs’ side, as having obtained one of the Top 50 Jury Verdicts by the National Law Journal. The firm has been recognized by Chambers & Partners, Benchmark Litigation, and U.S. News’ “Best Law Firms.” Its lawyers have been rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell, listed among the Best Lawyers in America, and rated by Super Lawyers.
