David A. Bagwell

Lawyer

About David

David Bagwell is a 1968 graduate of Vanderbilt University, and in 1968-69 held a Corning Traveling Fellowship to study international business in 35 countries in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. He graduated from the University of Alabama law school in 1973, where he was Research Editor of the Alabama Law Review, and tied for second place in his law class.

His law practice has included general commercial litigation, banking, trade association, antitrust and competition matters [advice and litigation], corporations, admiralty, constitutional law, and the drafting of plain-English contracts.

In the litigation and appellate fields, Mr. Bagwell is listed in the book The Best Lawyers in America for commercial litigation. He was Chairman of the Lawyers' Advisory Committee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [which covers Florida, Alabama and Georgia] from 1999 to 2001, and was a member of the Alabama Supreme Court's Standing Advisory Committee on the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure from 1986 to 2002. He is a member of the American Law Institute. He served as law clerk in 1973-74 to Hon. Frank M. Johnson, Jr., who was then Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. David was United States Magistrate for the Southern District of Alabama from 1979-85. He has extensive experience in class action litigation.

In the corporate and commercial field, he was Chair in 2002 of the Planning Committee of the Southeastern Corporate Law Institute. He frequently drafts plain-English contracts, and has experience with employment matters and cases.

In the banking field, he has for years represented banks in, at least occasionally, most areas of banking law, and has served on the board of directors of a bank.

In the admiralty and maritime field, he has served on the faculty of both the Tulane Admiralty Law Institute and the Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute, and has published articles on maritime law in the Tulane Law Review in the United States, and in Lloyd's Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly abroad. He was a charter member of the Committee on Products Liability of the Maritime Law Association of the United States. He is a proctor member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States.

In the competition, antitrust, trade association, standard-setting and related fields, he is author of parts of five annual supplements to four different editions of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section's treatise Antitrust Developments, and was author of part of the ABA Antitrust Section's Antitrust Consent Decree Manual. His antitrust sheet “Your Momma’s Rules”^[1] was cited in Antitrust Magazine as an example of “using humor and easy to understand comparisons [to] keep this [antitrust] material lively and accessible”. He served as Chairman in 1978 of the Alabama State Bar Section on Antitrust Law, served in 1998-2000 as a Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section's Civil Practice and Procedure Committee, and from 2000-2002 as a Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section's Trade Association Committee.

In 2001-2002 David served as President of the Alabama chapter of the Order of the Coif.

David practices in the Federal and State courts in Alabama, maintains his office in Fairhope, and lives in Point Clear.

^[1] An electronic version of this document is accessible at www.bagwellesq.com/yourmommasrules.pdf