Balch & Bingham LLP

Litigation

Partner

Ed Haden focuses his practice on knowing the written and unwritten practices, procedures, and trends of the Alabama appellate courts that are necessary to obtain a decision on the merits. His deep appellate litigation experience includes litigation in the products liability, business, banking, and energy fields. Ed founded Balch’s Appellate Practice and has written extensively on appellate litigation topics. Most recently, he authored the Alabama Appellate Practice (CLE Alabama 2025). Ed serves as chair of the Standing Committee on the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure. He previously served as nominations and constitutional law counsel for Chair Orrin Hatch on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary and as chief counsel on the Courts Subcommittee for Senator Jeff Sessions.

American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Fellow

Alabama Law Foundation, Fellow

Alabama Bar Association, Appellate Practice Section

Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, Amicus Committee

DRI - Lawyers Representing Business, Appellate Advocacy

Chair, Standing Committee on the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure

Alabama State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Former Member

Washington & Lee University School of Law, J.D., 1993, magna cum laude

The University of Alabama, Masters in Tax Accounting, 1986

The University of Alabama, B.S., Accounting, 1985, summa cum laude (First in Class)