Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O’Neal LLP
2001 Park Place North, Suite 700
Birmingham, Alabama 35203-4804

Telephone: 205-716-5312
Facsimile: 205-716-5389
Email: csm@cabaniss.com 

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Areas of Practice:

Business Litigation
Securities Litigation
Trade Regulation
Professional Liability Defense
Personal Injury Litigation
Employment Litigation

Education:

L.L.B., Harvard Law School, 1968
 
B.A., magna cum laude, Honors
     in English, Vanderbilt University,
     1965

Admitted to Practice:

Alabama State Bar (1968)
All Alabama U.S. District Courts
Eleventh and Fifth Circuit Courts
     of Appeal
U.S. Supreme Court
 

Crawford S. McGivaren, Jr.

Crawford McGivaren has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America in Business and Personal Injury Litigation since 1989. He has been named by Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top 50 lawyers in the state of Alabama. He is listed in the Who’s Who Legal section under USA Commercial Litigation.  He is also named in the inaugural edition of Benchmark as a leading lawyer. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He serves as Alabama Division Counsel for Norfolk Southern Corporation. He is on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel.

His practice has encompassed contract, antitrust, unfair trade, partnership, shareholder oppression, dissenter's rights, director and officer liability litigation, insurance coverage, and all manner of personal injury/toxic tort litigation. Ultimately prevailing after two en banc opinions, he was the principal defense counsel in the securities case which first recognized the "fraud-on-the-market" theory of Rule 10b-5 liability. He was trial and appellate counsel in groundbreaking cases resulting in federal preemption decisions favorable to the rail industry. He is responsible for medical malpractice defense and other litigation at two major Birmingham hospitals. He has defended class and individual claims asserting product liability, consumer finance violations and insurance fraud. He has handled employment, non-compete, and tortious interference claims, and the successful defense of a long-running Human Rights Act case in West Virginia.

He is a member of the Defense Research Institute, the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association and The Torts and Insurance Practice and Health Law Sections of the ABA. He is active in bar, community, and charitable affairs.