Shawn’s practice focuses on workers’ compensation defense and other related and ancillary issues including retaliatory discharge/wrongful termination. She also works in the arena of subrogation recovery. She represents insurance companies, Funds, self-insured entities, governmental entities, corporations, healthcare providers, and other businesses, both large and small, throughout Alabama in a variety of workers’ compensation-related legal matters. Her practice includes consultations on preventative measures to alleviate on-the-job injuries and counseling businesses on handling work-related claims prior to litigation. She has worked in both private practice and as in-house counsel dealing with litigation and regulatory compliance matters for companies that underwrite workers’ compensation and employers’ liability coverage. Shawn is also a mediator registered with the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution and mediates a comprehensive range of cases throughout the State of Alabama.
She is a frequent lecturer on varied workers’ compensation matters including specific legal issues as well as ethics, ethical billing practices, and cost saving measures for adjusters and employers. She also participates on the county and state level in matters involving law student and attorney ethics issues. Mrs. Cole is also heavily involved in community outreach working with nonprofit organizations and serves on several non-profit boards.
Alabama State Bar Association, Member of the Workers’ Compensation Division
Montgomery County Bar Foundation, Board of Directors
Montgomery County Bar Association, Member
Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, Member
Hugh Maddox American Inn of Court, Vice President
Alabama Workers’ Compensation Organization, Member
Alabama Workers’ Compensation Defense Lawyers Association, Treasurer
2024 MCBA Service & Achievement Award Recipient
2023 Comp Laude® Defense Attorney of the Year
AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Flatline Community Coalition, Advisory Committee
Alabama Volunteer Lawyers, Volunteer
Alabama National Fair, Past President
Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation, Board President
Alabama, 1993
J.D., Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, 1993
B.A., University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1990