W. JOSEPH MCCORKLE, JR., a partner in the Montgomery office, is a member of the firm's Business Litigation and Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy Practice Groups. Mr. McCorkle's practice is focused on complex litigation, which he describes as involving multiple parties and procedural issues, complicated factual and legal issues and/or high stakes for his client. Clients he has represented in recent years include an investor in an alternative energy company, condominium owners against a mortgagee of the real property on which their condominium units were to be built, managerial employees of a state agency against allegations of animus by persons disgruntled by decisions of the agency, a professional association against allegations by a mother who claimed that her daughter's death was caused by adherence to guidelines promulgated by the association, the manufacturer and distributor of ATMs against a competitor, an employer of an employee against allegations of a previous employer that the employee had violated a covenant not to compete, banks against mortgagors, an oil and gas company in royalty litigation with the State of Alabama, a property and casualty insurance company in a rate hearing before the Alabama Department of Insurance, an electric utility in cases in which property owners claimed fire damages against the utility, and a woman who was paralyzed when the vehicle in which she was a passenger ran off the road and rolled into a ravine. Mr. McCorkle has also served as a mediator in construction and commercial cases.
Mr. McCorkle has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation (2004-2010), and Alabama SuperLawyers for Business Litigation (2008-2010), and has been a frequent speaker and teacher on various litigation subjects, including e-discovery, the role of accountants in litigation, and punitive damages law.
Mr. McCorkle is married to the former Talmadge ("Tammy") Williams and they have three sons, Thomson, Andrew, and Walter.
