Edward A. Dean Mobile, Alabama
| Partner | |
| phone | (251) 405-1300 |
| fax | (251) 432-6843 (251) 433-3821 |
| ead@ajlaw.com | |
Mr. Dean specializes in business litigation (including class actions) and has specific expertise in banking and finance related matters. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America under the Business Litigation specialty since 1997.
He has litigated cases in Alabama and elsewhere involving banking products and practices, insurance, unfair competition, intellectual property, ERISA, consumer and business fraud, trusts, construction and real estate, and civil conspiracy.
He served on the Alabama Committees for Revision of UCC Articles 1, 3, 4 and 7, and he has been a speaker at programs sponsored by bar associations and law schools on topics concerning developments in business litigation, banking and class actions.
Attorney Dean was recognized this year by the Volunteer Lawyer Program with a Certificate of Appreciation for volunteering 100 hours of pro-bono time to numerous individual cases.
Mr. Dean has been selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialities of Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation. He is also one of a distinguished group of attorneys who have now been listed in Best Lawyers for ten years or longer.
Mr. Dean has been recognized for 2010 by Alabama Super Lawyers.
- Areas of Practice:
- Business Litigation
- Construction and Real Estate Litigation
- Banking and Finance
- Estates and Trusts
- Intellectual Property
- Professional Liability
- Bar Admissions:
- Alabama, 1980
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Alabama, 1991
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Alabama, 1991
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Alabama, 1981
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1986
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1990
- Representative Cases:
- 161 Perdido Ventures, U.C v. Swervo Development Corp., WL4105981 (S,D. Ala. 2007)
- White v. Microsoft Corp., 454 F. Supp. 2d 1118 (S.D. Ala. 2006 2006)
- Dees v. AmSouth Bank, 847 So. 2d 923 (Ala. 2002)
- AmSouth Bank v. Tice, 923 So. 2d 1060 (Ala. 2006)
- State v Amerada Hess Corp., 788 So. 2d 179 (Ala. Civ. App. 2000)
- Ex parte AmSouth Bank, 735 So. 2d 1151 (Ala. 1999)
- Ex parteToler, 710 So, 2d 415 (Ala. 1998)
- City of Orange Beach v. Scottsdale Ins. Co., 113 F.3d 1251 (11th Cir. 1997)
- Shelley v. AmSouth Bank, 2000 U.S. Dlst, LEXIS 11429 (S.D. Ala. 1997)
- Past Employment Positions:
- Armbrecht Jackson, 1980 - Present
