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Dear NONE,

David Marsh has been chosen as Alabama's #1 Super Lawyer! Super Lawyers uses a system of nominations, peer evaluation and internal research to rank lawyers around the country.  What an honor to be the top point getter on a list of such outstanding lawyers around Alabama.

The Alabama Supreme Court recently upheld a summary judgment in favor of the firm's client in a complicated will contest and fraud case.  The case was handled at the trial level by Mike Beard and Nat Bryan and at the appellate level by Tom Powell.  When our client, a Clarke County man, inherited most of his mother's extensive timberland holdings, he was sued by his two sisters.  The case was initially filed as a will contest in which the sisters claimed their brother wrongfully procured terms in the will.  The sisters later added fraud claims against their brother and their mother's estate.

The case presented many substantive legal issues, including the scope of the Statute of Frauds, the doctrine of judicial estoppel and the application of the statute of limitations for promissory fraud.  Mike says "the McCorquodale case shows how our firm handles cases outside of the ambit of traditional personal injury".

Note: The sisters have since filed an application for rehearing.

Last month, a Jefferson County jury returned a verdict in the amount of $190,000 in an uninsured motorist case that Nat tried.  The case was about a car wreck that occurred in January 2006 on Interstate 459.  After the plaintiff was forced to stop on the highway for a stalled car, the plaintiff's car was struck in the rear not once, but twice.  She suffered a bad ankle fracture as a result of the collision.

Last week, Nat got to share some of his trial skills with lawyers who attended a program called "Masters in Trial".  The program was sponsored by the Alabama Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).  It involved a trial demonstration in an automotive product liability case.  Nat performed a mock cross-examination of a defense automotive expert for those who attended the program.

The last time we updated you on former  MRB lawyer, Brandon Essig, he was working as a JAG lawyer in Washington, D.C.  But last month, Brandon left behind family and all the creature comforts of the States as he was deployed to Iraq.  He's attached to an infantry battalion.  Keep him in your thoughts.

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