3/17/2009 - Haskell Slaughter’s Jones Gives 2009 Nichols Foundation Lecture at Stetson University Law School (Press Release)
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HASKELL SLAUGHTER'S JONES GIVES 2009 NICHOLS FOUNDATION
LECTURE AT STETSON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - March 17, 2009 - G. Douglas Jones, an attorney with Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC, delivered the 2009 Nichols Foundation Prominent Speaker Lecture at the Stetson University College of Law on March 12, 2009. Mr. Jones's address, entitled "Justice Delayed, but Not Denied: The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing Prosecutions," recounted the story of the successful murder prosecutions of two of the 16th Street Baptist church bombers in a case re-opened 40 years after the tragedy. Mr. Jones served as lead trial counsel in the prosecutions.
Stetson's lecture series is named for Perry Nichols, who served as president of the American Trial Lawyers Association and the International Trial Lawyers Association. An inductee to the Stetson Law Hall of Fame, Nichols also was a charter member of the law school's board of overseers. The Nichols Foundation Prominent Speakers Series, established in 1995, enriches academic life at Stetson by presenting prominent speakers from business, government and the law. For more information, visit http://www.law.stetson.edu/.
ABOUT G. DOUGLAS JONES
Doug Jones has maintained an active civil and criminal trial practice for nearly 30 years, both as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney. His private-sector clients have included pension funds and other institutional investors, high-profile corporate officers and political figures, and a variety of business enterprises, among others. As United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 until 2001, Mr. Jones personally led the team of prosecutors and investigators in the re-opened case of the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Mr. Jones served as lead trial attorney in the successful prosecutions of two former Ku Klux Klansmen for the murder of four young girls killed in the bombing. He also coordinated the federal and state task force that led to the indictment of notorious fugitive Eric Robert Rudolph, who ultimately pled guilty to four terrorist bombings and is serving a life sentence. Since returning to private practice, Mr. Jones has represented individual and corporate defendants and targets in high-profile white-collar litigation in both federal and state courts and has represented both individual plaintiffs and plaintiff classes in complex securities and annuities litigation, as well as in other complex litigation and investigation matters. Active in numerous professional associations, he was recognized in the first annual Alabama Super Lawyers listing in 2008 and in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, as well as in Birmingham Magazine's 2009 "Top Attorneys"listing.
ABOUT HASKELL SLAUGHTER YOUNG & REDIKER, LLC
With offices in Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama, Atlanta and New York City, Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC provides a full range of professional legal services to local, regional and national clients. The firm provides sophisticated advice and representation to clients in Alabama and across the country through its transactional and litigation practice groups.
For more information on Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC, please visit http://www.hsy.com/. To speak with Doug Jones, please contact Ruwena Healy at 205.655.0783.
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