Latanishia Watters has developed a diversified commercial litigation practice, focusing on tort and insurance defense and other complex civil litigation.  She represents insureds, insurers, financial institutions, broker-dealers, bankruptcy trustees, creditors and other business entities in a wide variety of litigation, with particular emphasis on fraud and bad faith litigation, securities fraud litigation, broker-dealer litigation and arbitration, and bankruptcy proceedings, including preference actions and related creditors' rights claims.

Locally, Ms. Watters has held a variety of professional leadership positions, including service as President of the Magic City Bar Association, Chair of the Birmingham Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Committee, and member of the BBA Women Lawyers Section Executive Board.  On a national level, Ms. Watters has been appointed as the Alabama/Georgia District Representative to the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association and as the Division's Assistant Diversity Director, named as a Minorities in the Profession Scholar by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, and named as a 2008-2009 TIPS NOW! Fellow by the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association, among her many leadership positions.  Most recently, she has been elected as Assembly Clerk of the ABA Young Lawyers Division for 2010-2011, named as Vice Chair and Newsletter Editor of the Staff Counsel Committee of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, and named to the Standing Committee on Diversity in the Profession of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section.

In 2008, Ms. Watters was named as one of Birmingham's "Most Influential" in the second edition of Who's Who in Black Birmingham.  She is also an active member of the Girls, Inc. Committee of 25 and the American Cancer Society Board of Directors. 

Professional Affiliations:

• American Bar Association (Assistant Editor, The Young Lawyer; 2007-2008 Minorities in the Profession Scholar, Young Lawyers Division; 2008-2009 TIPS NOW! Fellow, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section; 2010-2011 Vice Chair and Newsletter Editor, Staff Counsel Committee, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section. Standing Committee on Diversity in the Profession, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section; 2008-2009 Alabama/Georgia District Representative, Young Lawyers Division; 2009-2010 Assistant Diversity Director, Young Lawyers Division; 2010-2011 Assembly Clerk, Young Lawyers Division)
• Alabama State Bar (Board of Editors, The Alabama Lawyer)
• Birmingham Bar Association (Chair, Continuing Legal Education Committee; Executive Board, Women Lawyers Section)
• Magic City Bar Association (President, 2008; Vice President, 2007; Treasurer, 2004 - 2006)
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• National Bar Association (Member, Commercial Law Section)
• Defense Research Institute