Hoover, Trisha D.

SEAN W. SHIRLEY is originally from Lanett, Alabama and is a Partner in the firm's Birmingham office. As a member of the firm's Litigation section, Mr. Shirley's practice concentrates on casualty litigation, including toxic and environmental torts, product liability, personal injury and wrongful death. Mr. Shirley has represented a wide-range of clients, including Fortune 500 chemical companies, a child restraint system manufacturer, public utility companies, public housing authorities, and a manufacturer of industrial and residential wood products.

In the last several years, Mr. Shirley has defended an environmental pollution case involving claims that the manufacturer discharged chemicals, solvents, and ash onto an adjoining property; a mass tort action involving alleged work-place exposure to airborne chemicals; several lead-based paint poisoning cases; and the defense of complex product liability actions including several child restraint system cases, a blow-molding machine, a storage valve for a timber machine, insulated refrigeration panels for a cold storage plant, and component parts for an integrated manufacturing system among others.

Mr. Shirley has developed extensive knowledge of federal statues and rules and regulations governing lead-based paint including, but not limited to, the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act and the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act, the alleged affects of exposure to lead, and defending brain injury cases. Mr. Shirley has also developed extensive knowledge of the means and methods to successfully challenge expert liability, causation, and damage experts and has prevailed in challenging experts in the fields of engineering, warnings, biomechanics, counseling neuropsychology, and pediatric medicine in state and federal court under both the Frye and Daubert standards.