Admitted
1955, Alabama; 1960, U.S. Supreme Court; 1962, District of Columbia
Law School
Harvard University, J.D., magna cum laude, 1955
Law School Graduation Year
1955
College
Harvard University, A.B., magna cum laude, 1952
Memberships
Alabama State Bar; American Bar Association; American Law Institute.
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa. Member, Board of Editors, Harvard Law Review, 1953-1955. Author: Some Practical Questions Concerning the Effect of the Proposed Federal Securities Code on Civil Litigation, 32 Vanderbilt Law Review 2, 1979; Litigation Under SEC Rule 10b-5 and Civil Remedies Available for Violations of SEC Rule 10b-5, in Resource Materials for Securities Litigation, 2d ed., 1977. Law Clerk to Justice Hugo L. Black, U.S. Supreme Court, 1955-1956. Special Assistant and Loan Officer, Bureau for Near East and South Asia, Agency for International Development, U.S. State Department, 1962. Member, Advisory Committee on Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States, 1978-1984. Chairman: ALI-ABA Course of Study on Litigation Under the Federal Securities Laws, 1974-1981; ALI-ABA Course of Study on Class and Derivative and Other Multiparty Complex Litigation, 1978; N.Y. Law Journal Seminar on Class Actions, 1973.