Balch & Bingham LLP

Commercial & Class Action

Of Counsel

Mike Edwards is a business litigator with more than 50 years of experience handling complex matters for financial institutions, health care providers, accounting firms, and attorneys. He regularly serves as an arbitrator and mediator and is experienced guiding clients to successful resolutions. Mike is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.  He often lectures on trials of complex cases, appellate work, enforcement of agreements to arbitrate, class actions, lender liability, securities litigation, accountant’s liability, shareholder liability for corporate debt, covenants not to compete and the attorney-client privilege.

American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow

American Board of Trial Advocates

Arbitrator and Mediator

Alabama State Bar and Birmingham Bar Association, numerous leadership positions

Alabama Law Foundation and Birmingham Bar Foundation, Fellow

Birmingham Inn of Court, Master and President from 2001 – 2003

University of Alabama School of Law, Adjunct Professor, Advanced Evidence

The University of Alabama School of Law, LL.B., 1966, Editorial Board, Alabama Law Review

The University of Alabama, B.A., 1964