Ken Sansom SPOTSWOOD SANSOM & SANSBURY LLC 940 Concord Center 2100 Third Avenue North Birmingham, AL 35203-3329 Tel: (205) 986-3622 Fax: (205) 986-3639 download vCard

Ken Sansom focuses on complex litigation, representing defendants before state and federal trial and appellate courts. Before leaving to form Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC in 2001, Mr. Sansom was an associate with Alabama's largest law firm and a law clerk to the Hon. Emmett R. Cox of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and Rice University. Prior to entering law school, Mr. Sansom was a submarine officer in the United States Navy.

Honors & Awards:
Best Constitutional Law Note, Texas Law Review, Volume 77; Member, Board of Advocates; Best Advocate, Thad T. Hutcheson Endowed Sectional Moot Court; Semifinalist, Strasburger & Price Senior Honors Mock Trial

Published Works:
Note, "Sharing the Burden: Exploring the Space Between Uniform and Specific Applicability in Current Free Exercise Jurisprudence," 77 Texas L. Rev. 753 (1999).

Robert K. Spotswood and Kenneth D. Sansom, "Who May Speak for the King?  Challenging Common Assumptions about Representing the Government in Class Action," Class Action Litigation Report, Vol. 5, No. 15, page 549.

Position:
Member

Practice Areas:
Antitrust and Trade Regulation
Appellate Litigation
Business & Commercial Law
Civil Rights
Class Actions
Commercial Litigation Complex Litigation
Constitutional Law Employment Benefits Law Employment Discrimination
Securities Law
Transportation Law (including
   Airline Liability)

Admitted:
Alabama
U.S. Courts of Appeals for the
   Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh
   Circuits
U.S. District Courts for the
   Northern, Middle, and
   Southern Districts of
   Alabama

Education:
Rice University (B.A., 1990)

University of Texas School of
   Law (J.D., with honors,
   1999); Articles Editor, Texas
   Law Review

Clerkship:
Hon. Emmett R. Cox,
   U.S. Court of Appeals,
   Eleventh Circuit, 2000-2001

Affiliations:
Birmingham Bar Association
Federal Bar Association
American Bar Association
   (Member, Litigation and
   Antitrust Sections)
Alabama State Bar
Former Federal Law Clerks
   Society
 

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