Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O’Neal LLP
Riverview Plaza
63 Royal Street, Suite 700
Mobile, AL 36602

Phone: 251-415-7312
Facsimile: 251-415-7350
Email: kwmc@cabaniss.com 

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Areas of Practice:

Commercial Litigation
Personal Injury Litigation
Employment Litigation
Franchising Litigation

Education:

Swiss Confederation Fellowship,
     1980-1982, Université de
     Genève: Institut de Hautes
     Etudes Internationales, Ph.D.
     (Doctorat: Law and Economics)
Rotary International Fellowship,
     1979-1980, Université de Lille:
     Lille, France
J.D. University of Alabama School
     of Law, 1979, National Moot
     Court Board Team, Moot Court
     Board
B.A. University of Alabama, 1975,
     Double Major: English and
     American Studies (Jasons:
     Senior Men Honorary, Omicron
     Delta Kappa, President)

K. W. Michael Chambers

Michael Chambers is resident in the Mobile, Alabama office. He is an experienced litigator, mediator, arbitrator and businessman.

As a result of his extensive litigation experience, he has been certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (“NBTA”). He previously prepared and graded exams for those attorneys in the United States seeking certification by the NBTA. He is licensed to practice in Alabama, New York and Washington, D.C.

He routinely serves as a mediator and was one of 20 attorneys and judges selected from applicants worldwide for the first advanced mediation training held at Harvard Law School.

Routinely selected as an arbitrator, he serves on the Commercial, Employment, International and Large Complex Cases Panel of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”). He has been selected by the AAA to train other arbitrators throughout the United States, has written arbitration materials for the Advanced Arbitration Training Program, and routinely teaches that course, as well as others, at the request of the AAA.

The scope of his arbitration experience is nationwide, having arbitrated cases in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Miami, New Orleans, Dallas and Atlanta. He has served as Co-Chair of national panels of arbitrators in both the New York Life and the Transamerica Class Action Settlement ADR programs.

He is licensed to practice in Alabama, New York and Washington, DC. He speaks fluent French and Spanish.

Mr. Chambers also has considerable business experience. He helped found InnoRx Pharmaceuticals in 1999, a company specializing in development of drugs and drug delivery systems for ocular disease. He served as President and CEO until negotiating its sale to SurModics (NASDAQ: SRDX) in January 2005.

Active in the community, he serves or has served on various boards of directors, including Rotary, the YMCA, Goodwill-Easter Seal and the Presbyterian Home for Children. Mr. Chambers founded the teen driving program, SOS Teen Driving, www.sosteendriving.com.  This program educates parents on teen issues and encourages them to use driving contracts to tie use of a car to good teen behavior both on and off the road.