Brittin T. Coleman

University of Alabama School of Law, Sam W. Pipes Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2009 American Bar Foundation, Fellow Alabama Law Foundation, Fellow Birmingham Bar Foundation, Fellow Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent Rated Listed in Alabama Super Lawyers, Civil Litigation Defense, 2009–2012 Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® Personal Injury Litigation–Defendants, 2003–2015, 2017-2018 Product Liability Litigation–Defendants, 2007–2015, 2017-2018 "Lawyer of the Year," Birmingham, Product Liability Litigation, 2010 Listed in Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities Distinguished Military Graduate and Commissioned 2d Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 1964 American Jurisprudence Book Awards, Four-time Winner Woodard v. STP Corp., 11th Cir. 1999, 170 F.3d 1043 Ex parte Tarpley, Ala. 1974, 293 Ala. 137, 300 So. 2d 409 DeLoach v. Mayer Elec. Supply Co., Ala. 1979, 378 So. 2d 733 Waldrop v. Peabody Galion Corp., Ala. 1982, 423 So. 2d 733 Glover v. Silent Hoist & Crane Co., Inc., N.D. Ala. 1979, 471 F. Supp. 457 General Motors v. Edwards, Ala. 1985, 482 So. 2d 1176, 54 USLW 2356 Tapley v. Liberty Super Markets of Birmingham, Ala. Crim. App. 1974, 53 Ala. App. 363, 300 So. 2d 401 Enoch v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Ala. 1988, 534 So. 2d 266 Michael Barnes v. Birmingham International Raceway Inc., Ala. 1989, 551 So. 2d 929 Beville v. Spencer, Ala. 1990, 568 So. 2d 1224 Arthur Young, Inc. v. Arthur Young & Co., N.D. Ala. 1983, 579 F. Supp. 384, 224 U.S.P.Q. 166 Ritchie v. Bridgestone/Firestone, Ala. 1993, 621 So. 2d 288 Pitts v. Beasley, Ala. 1997, 706 So. 2d 711 American States Ins. Co. v. Lanier Business Products, M.D. Ala. 1989, 707 F. Supp. 494 Reynolds v. Bridgestone/Firestone, 11th Cir. 1993, 989 F.3d 465 Arthur Young, Inc. v. Arthur Young & Co., 579 F. Supp. 384 (N.D. Ala. 1983) The firm successfully represented Arthur Young, Inc., a national “big Eight” accounting firm that was also engaged in the business of executive search and recruitment, in this declaratory judgment filed against it by an executive search firm whose president and sole shareholder was named Arthur Young. We filed a counterclaim seeking a declaration that plaintiff’s use of “Arthur Young” infringed as well as diluted our client’s trademark rights under federal and Alabama law. After a bench trial, the court entered a judgment and permanent injunction in favor of our client.