Katie T. Powell

Katie T.

Powell

Chair, Women's Initiative Member, Diversity and Inclusivity Committee

Experience

  • Represent and defend insurance companies in complex litigation/class actions, extracontractual litigation, coverage and special investigations.
  • Obtained summary judgment for an insurer client in a breach of contract and bad faith case, involving alleged arson and fraud by the insured, affirmed in full by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals following oral argument.

Distinctions

  • Best Lawyers in America®
    • Commercial Litigation, 2021-2024
  • Super Lawyers®
    • Mid-South Rising Stars, General Litigation, 2014-2022
  • Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum – Class 2014
  • Future Leadership Forum, Birmingham Bar Association, Class of 2010
  • Leadership Council, University of Alabama, Class of 2010
  • Birmingham Business Journal
    • Best of the Bar, 2020
    • Rising Star of Law, 2019

Bar Admissions

  • Alabama, 2007
  • U.S. District Courts
    • Alabama: Northern, Middle, Southern
  • U.S. Court of Appeals
    • 11th Circuit

Education

  • Cumberland School of Law, J.D., 2007
    • Assistant Justice, Moot Court Board
  • University of Georgia, B.A., Marketing, 2004
  • Clerkship, Honorable Judge Michael G. Graffeo, Circuit Judge, 10th Judicial Circuit, Alabama, June 2007-September 2008

Associations

  • Alabama State Bar Association
    • Leadership Forum's Class of 2014
  • Birmingham Bar Association
    • Young Lawyers Division
      • President, 2012-2013
      • President Elect, 2011-2012
      • Secretary/Treasurer, 2010-2011
      • Vice President of Social, 2009-2010
      • Executive Board Member, 2008-2009
    • Future Leaders Forum Committee
  • Birmingham Bar Foundation
    • Board of Directors
  • Birmingham Volunteer Lawyer’s Program
    • Volunteer, 2008-Present
  • American Bar Association
  • International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
    • Alternative Dispute Resolution Substantive Law Committee
      • Director of Webinars

Papers, Presentations & Publications

  • Speaker, “Associate to Partner: Marketing Yourself,” Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, Young Lawyers Section CLE, July 22, 2020.

Civic Involvement

  • Vestavia Hills City Schools Foundation, Board of Directors

Katie T.

Powell

Experience

  • Represent and defend insurance companies in complex litigation/class actions, extracontractual litigation, coverage and special investigations.
  • Obtained summary judgment for an insurer client in a breach of contract and bad faith case, involving alleged arson and fraud by the insured, affirmed in full by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals following oral argument.

Distinctions

  • Best Lawyers in America®
    • Commercial Litigation, 2021-2024
  • Super Lawyers®
    • Mid-South Rising Stars, General Litigation, 2014-2022
  • Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum – Class 2014
  • Future Leadership Forum, Birmingham Bar Association, Class of 2010
  • Leadership Council, University of Alabama, Class of 2010
  • Birmingham Business Journal
    • Best of the Bar, 2020
    • Rising Star of Law, 2019

Bar Admissions

  • Alabama, 2007
  • U.S. District Courts
    • Alabama: Northern, Middle, Southern
  • U.S. Court of Appeals
    • 11th Circuit

Education

  • Cumberland School of Law, J.D., 2007
    • Assistant Justice, Moot Court Board
  • University of Georgia, B.A., Marketing, 2004
  • Clerkship, Honorable Judge Michael G. Graffeo, Circuit Judge, 10th Judicial Circuit, Alabama, June 2007-September 2008

Associations

  • Alabama State Bar Association
    • Leadership Forum's Class of 2014
  • Birmingham Bar Association
    • Young Lawyers Division
      • President, 2012-2013
      • President Elect, 2011-2012
      • Secretary/Treasurer, 2010-2011
      • Vice President of Social, 2009-2010
      • Executive Board Member, 2008-2009
    • Future Leaders Forum Committee
  • Birmingham Bar Foundation
    • Board of Directors
  • Birmingham Volunteer Lawyer’s Program
    • Volunteer, 2008-Present
  • American Bar Association
  • International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
    • Alternative Dispute Resolution Substantive Law Committee
      • Director of Webinars

Papers, Presentations & Publications

  • Speaker, “Associate to Partner: Marketing Yourself,” Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, Young Lawyers Section CLE, July 22, 2020.

Civic Involvement

  • Vestavia Hills City Schools Foundation, Board of Directors