Lee E Bains Jr

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Mr. Bains is a talented, highly respected litigator and appellate lawyer. He has extensive experience in complex civil litigation, particularly in the areas of class actions, punitive damages, insurance, antitrust, and business and commercial litigation. He is a fixture in the courtrooms throughout Alabama, both state and federal, and he has handled numerous appeals before the Alabama Supreme Court. Mr. Bains has represented numerous Fortune 500 companies in hundreds of cases federal nad state courts throughout the U.S. involving punitive damages, class actions, and complex commercial litigation. He has presented oral arguments in the Second, Fifth, Eighth, and Eleventh Circuits. His class action defense litigation experience has been throughout the country, including cases in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. He has appeared as an attorney of record in cases that have resulted in more than 100 published opinions. Mr. Bains earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and his A.B., cum laude, from Harvard University.