J. Michael Rediker
Mike Rediker has a litigation and legal advisory practice of national scope in the areas of securities, corporate governance, broker-dealer regulation and litigation, RICO, bond issuances and bond defaults, products liability, fraud, corporate law, trust law, and business torts. He has special experience in the settings of institutional, derivative, class action, complex and multi-district litigation. Mr. Rediker has served both as defense counsel and as plaintiffs' counsel, and has litigated cases in a wide variety of federal and state trial and appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court, the United States Tax Court and numerous United States Courts of Appeals. He has represented clients in litigation in approximately half the states in the U.S. Mr. Rediker also represents claimants and respondents in FINRA and AAA arbitration forums.
In his practice, Mr. Rediker has represented institutional and individual investors of all types (including state pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds, financial institutions, and private retirement funds) as well as public and private corporations and governmental entities.
In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Rediker has taught securities regulation and related subjects at the University of Alabama School of Law and the Cumberland School of Law, and has authored numerous articles, book chapters, speeches and continuing legal education study outlines. Mr. Rediker has also had considerable experience in the transactional and client advisory sides of securities and corporate finance. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in both Commercial Litigation and Securities Law, and has been included in that publication for over 20 years. In addition, Mr. Rediker was recognized for expertise in litigation in the Birmingham Business Journal's 2006 and 2007 "Best of the Bar" polls and is listed in both Alabama Super Lawyers and Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (Litigation: General Commercial). He was honored as "Birmingham Securities Lawyer of the Year" for 2010 by Best Lawyers.
Admitted to practice:
Alabama
U.S. Supreme Court
Princeton University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1964)
Harvard Law School (J.D., 1967)
"Duties, Responsibilities, Roles and Civil Liability of Counsel, Issuers, Underwriters and Indenture Trustees in Bond Default Situations", The Problems of Indenture Trustees and Bondholders, 1991
"The Fifth Circuit Cracks Down on Not-So-Private Offerings", Alabama Law Review, 1973
"Alabama's Blue Sky Law - Its Dubious History and Current Renaissance", Alabama Law Review, 1971
"Civil Liability of Broker-Dealers Under SEC and NASD Suitability Rules", Alabama Law Review, 1969
Lecturer on Securities Litigation for numerous Practising Law Institute and ALI-ABA seminars
