Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC - Attorneys: Michael T. Sansbury

Michael T. Sansbury
SPOTSWOOD SANSOM & SANSBURY LLC
940 Concord Center
2100 Third Avenue North
Birmingham, AL 35203-3329
Tel: (205) 986-3623
Fax: (205) 986-3639

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Michael Sansbury has represented clients in trial and appellate courts across the United States. He has argued in courts ranging from Oregon Circuit Court to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He has examined countless witnesses—from the president of a multi-national corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to a newspaper publisher from Auburn, Alabama. Sansbury has tried issues in state and federal courts of Alabama.

Always thinking of the long-term impact, Sansbury specializes in developing big-picture solutions to large-scale problems. For instance, on behalf of a Fortune 100 company, he has helped to design and execute national litigation strategies to minimize the risk of particular theories of liability in class-action and wage-and-hour cases.

In Alabama, Sansbury has been involved in numerous high-profile cases, including litigation involving one of the largest corporate frauds in history, the Jefferson County sewer debt crisis, and electronic bingo. In 2010 and 2011, he was recognized as a "Rising Star" by Alabama Super Lawyers magazine, a designation awarded to no more than 2.5% of the lawyers statewide.

Position:
Member

Practice Areas:
Antitrust and Trade Regulation
Appellate Practice
Class Actions & Complex Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Constitutional Law
Insurance
Intellectual Property
Securities Litigation
Transportation Law

Admitted:
Alabama
Georgia
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Courts of Appeals, First, Sixth, Ninth and
     Eleventh Circuits
U.S. District Courts, Northern, Middle and
     Southern Districts of Alabama, Middle
     District of Georgia

Education:
University of the South (B.A., magna cum
     laude, Economics, Political Science (with
     honors), 1998) Phi Beta Kappa; Pi Sigma
     Alpha

Yale Law School (J.D., 2001). Senior Editor,
Yale Law and Policy Review; John M. Olin
Fellow

Clerkship:
Hon. Emmett R. Cox, U.S. Court of Appeals,
Eleventh Circuit, 2001-2002

Affiliations:
Birmingham Bar Association
Federal Bar Association (Treasurer,
Birmingham Chapter, Federal Litigation
and Transportation Law Sections)
American Bar Association (Litigation Section)