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Kristen S Cross

Shareholder
Birmingham
kcross@sirote.com
Tel: 205.930.5136
Fax: 205.212.3835
 Assistant
Karen Keeton
kkeeton@sirote.com
205.930.5256

Kristen represents both plaintiffs and defendants in business litigation matters. Her trial practice includes insurance, ERISA and mortgage banking litigation. Kristen assists clients in pursuing and defending emergency injunctive relief.

  • Admitted to practice
    • US District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Middle Districts of Alabama
    • 11th District Court of Appeals
    • US Supreme Court
  • Key participant in arbitration proceedings that involved more than 1200 claimants and lasted more than three years
  • Birmingham, Alabama and American Bar Associations 
     
  • Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
  • Defense Research Institute

 

Schools

  • University of Alabama School of Law
    JD, 1999
  • University of Alabama
    BA, 1990

Additional Accolades

University of Alabama School of Law
  • Alabama Law Review
  • Hugo Black Scholar
  • Dean M. Leigh Harrison Award
  • Order of the Coif
 		  

  • National MS Society, active fundraiser 
  • Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, active fundraiser 
  • Philanthropic Art Auction, fundraiser to defray the treatment costs of metastatic breast cancer, organizer and host
  • Friends of Jung-South, board of directors

 


 
  • Author, "When Juvenile Delinquents are Treated as Adults: The Constitutionality of Alabama's Automatic Transfer Statute," 50 Ala.L.Rev. 155, Fall 1998