Carter, Elizabeth Brannen

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Elizabeth has 30 years of civil litigation experience, representing public and private clients in matters ranging from employment to complex litigation. Elizabeth’s work led her to the healthcare world where she has represented private healthcare companies for 13 years. Elizabeth now leads the firm’s national Healthcare Cost Recovery Team in mass tort and pharmaceutical antitrust matters.

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Montgomery

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Elizabeth is the firm’s HIPAA Compliance Officer and manages the Security and Compliance team. She focuses on critical issues facing private healthcare companies, speaking on topics regarding maximizing medical cost recovery for private health plans. Most recently she served on the Unsecured Creditors Committee of the J&J subsidiary bankruptcy related to talcum powder claims. Elizabeth clerked for the Honorable Sonny Hornsby, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, from 1994-1995 and has been practicing law with Hill Hill Carter since 1995.

Associations

Alabama State Bar Association, Member

Montgomery County Bar Association, Member

Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, Member

American Trial Lawyers Association, Member of the National Trial Team

American Journal of Trial Advocacy, Member

Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, Member

DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar, Member

Alabama Council of School Board Attorneys, Member

National School Board Association Council of School Attorneys, Member

Published Work

Comparative Negligence As a Defense for Strict Liability, The American Journal of Trial Advocacy, Vol. 17:3  (1993)

Honors & Awards

AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Named “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers® for Litigation – Labor and Employment, Montgomery (2022)

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2020

Practice Areas

Bar Admissions

Alabama, 1994

Eleventh Circuit

Northern District of Alabama

Middle District of Alabama

Southern District of Alabama

Education

J.D., Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, 1994

B.A., Troy State University, summa cum laude, 1991