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About

Waller Law Office, PC specializes in civil business litigation in behalf of individuals and corporations and represents both plaintiffs and defendants.

 

Waller Law Office, PC specializes in civil business litigation on behalf of individuals and corporations and represents both plaintiffs and defendants. 

Waller Law Office handles a broad range of matters of concern to individuals and businesses including employment and Title VII related litigation, covenant not to compete matters, disputes with insurance carriers, minority shareholder disputes, buy-sell agreements, breach of contract litigation, matters arising under the Uniform Commercial Code relating to sales and secured transactions, commercial equipment lease transactions and disputes, construction litigation, insurance coverage and bad faith disputes, and class action litigation.

 
 
 
Jay Waller, Birmingham. Jonathan Waller Birmingham Attorney At Law. Jay Waller Law

Contact


cell (205) 601-9053
jwaller@waller-law.com

Principal

Jonathan Waller

Jonathan Waller has maintained an active trial practice for over 35 years, representing plaintiffs and defendants in class actions, commercial disputes and other complex civil litigation in the Southeast and across the United States. Mr. Waller is “AV” rated by Martindale-Hubbell.  

Mr. Waller established Waller Law Office, PC effective December 1, 2013. Mr. Waller’s practice now focuses on representing both individual and corporate plaintiffs and defendants in business litigation in Alabama and in the Southeast.

Mr. Waller previously co-founded the Campbell and Waller litigation firm in Birmingham, Alabama, where he also practiced in the area of business tort, complex civil litigation and class action matters. Mr. Waller's class action experience includes insurance, product liability, medical device, pharmaceutical, deceptive trade practice, and other commercial matters. Mr. Waller has served as lead counsel in a variety of class actions. 

Mr. Waller began his career with Smith, Gambrell and Russell in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1975 in defense-oriented litigation. Later, Mr. Waller joined the Birmingham, Alabama firm Haskell, Slaughter, Young & Rediker. Mr. Waller also served as an attorney to a former Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission where he participated in both consumer and antitrust areas. Throughout his career, Mr. Waller has successfully tried a wide variety of cases, representing plaintiffs and defendants in contractual, business tort and other commercial matters, as well as various claims involving the insurance industry.  He has secured a number of million dollar verdicts in behalf of plaintiffs.

 

Education

Phillips Academy Andover, MA (1967)
Columbia University (B.A., 1972)
Emory University Law School (J.D., 1975)

Associations & Memberships

  • Alabama State Bar (1981)
  • State Bar of Georgia (1975)
  • State Bar of Nevada (1993)
  • American Bar Association
  • Birmingham Bar Association
  • Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
  • Continuing Legal Education Program Speaker
  • Served on Alabama Bar Association Grievance Committees
  • Legislative Assistant in 1972 to Senator Alan Cranston (CA) - Majority Whip of US  Senate; involved in broad range of legislative matters particularly relating to Veterans affairs and the administration and oversight of the VA Hospital System    

News

  •   American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell, selected Jay Waller as a "2013 Top Rated Lawyer in 'Commercial Litigation'."
  •  Selected to Alabama Super Lawyer 2010 - 2014
  •  Selected to the 2017 Mid-South Super Lawyers
 
 

 
 
 
Tracy H. Slaughter Birmingham. Tracy Slaughter Waller Law

Contact

Phone (205) 313-7330
tslaughter@waller-law.com

Of Counsel

Tracy H. Slaughter

Ms. Slaughter is of counsel to Waller Law Office.  She received her juris doctor degree, summa cum laude, from the Cumberland School of Law. Tracy was the valedictorian of her 1990 class.  Ms. Slaughter assists Mr. Waller in representing both individuals and businesses in commercial and corporate litigation.  Ms. Slaughter has longstanding and varied experience in complex commercial litigation, including catastrophic injury and wrongful death, class actions, class actions, physician buyout disputes, business torts, Uniform Commercial Code and breach of warranty matters. She also has represented waste management companies and landfill owners and operators with regard to environmental regulatory and litigation matters, and has experience defending architects, engineers, design-builders, developers, home inspectors and general contractors.  Ms. Slaughter is a member of the Alabama State Bar and the State Bar of Georgia.

 

Education

CUMBERLAND SCHOOL OF LAW (J.D., 1990)

  •  Valedictorian of 1990 Law School Class
  •  Cumberland Law Review
  •  Curia Honoris
  •  Who’s Who Among American Law Students
  •  American Jurisprudence (Book) Awards: Civil Procedure II, Contracts I, Criminal Procedure, Decedents, Estates and Trusts
  •  Domestic Relations, Equitable Remedies, Real Estate Transactions, Torts I
  •  Full Academic Scholarship

SAMFORD UNIVERSITY (B.A. 1987)

  • Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
  • Presidential Merit Scholarship Recipient
  • Samford University Honors Scholarship
  • Dean’s List
  • Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society
  • Phi Gamma Mu, Social Science Honor Society
  • International Studies Program (London)
  • Student Representative to Faculty Advisory Committee for Business Affairs

Associations & Memberships

  • Alabama State Bar (1990)
  • State Bar of Georgia (1990)
  • Birmingham Bar Association