7/9/2009 - Haskell Slaughter’s Watters Selected for Leadership Birmingham 2009 – 2010 Class (Press Release)

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CONTACT:  Ruwena Healy
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205.655.0783
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HASKELL SLAUGHTER'S WATTERS SELECTED FOR LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM 2009 - 2010 CLASS

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - July 8, 2009  - Latanishia D. Watters, an attorney with Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC, has been selected for the 2009 - 2010 class of Leadership Birmingham, a community leadership program aimed at preparing and encouraging its graduates to engage in greater individual and group action in order to contribute to the betterment of the Birmingham community and its people.

Each year, Leadership Birmingham brings together a class of 40 to 46 leaders each year from diverse backgrounds. Through a series of monthly seminars, these leaders come to know and understand more about the community and one another as they explore timely and relevant issues, and exchange ideas and points of view.  For more information, visit http://www.leadershipbirmingham.org/.

ABOUT LATANISHIA D. WATTERS

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, 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 named as Assistant Diversity Director for the ABA Young Lawyers Division for 2009 - 2010.  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. 

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 Latanishia Watters, please contact Ruwena Healy at 205.655.0783.

 

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