Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Robert Maddox, a partner in the firm’s Birmingham office, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF).
“We congratulate Robert on his acceptance as a Fellow with the prestigious American Bar Foundation,” stated Bradley Birmingham Office Managing Partner Dawn Helms Sharff. “As a nationally recognized practitioner, Robert is well deserving of this honor for his work and leadership at our firm and in the broader legal community.”
Maddox is the practice group chair of Bradley’s 90+ attorney Banking & Financial Services Practice Group. In the past decade, he has handled more national/multi-state state attorneys general investigations and related consent judgments than any other attorney in the United States. He also is a regular speaker at national real estate programs, banking, and financial services industry conferences.
Maddox is a faculty fellow and teaches real estate law and regulatory compliance for the School of Mortgage Banking. In addition, he taught classes at the University of Alabama School of Law on real estate finance and development and state constitutional law, as well as continues to teach classes on consumer finance and enforcement, real property finance and security, and corporate governance as an adjunct professor at the Cumberland School of Law.
The ABF Fellows is an honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars whose careers have demonstrated dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of the communities. Only 1 percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction gain Membership in the Fellows. ABF was founded in 1952. It is an independent, nonprofit organization that seeks to advance the understanding and improvement of law through research projects of unmatched scale and quality on the most pressing issues facing the legal system in the United States and the world.
