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

Telephone: 205-716-5207
Facsimile: 205-716-5389
Email: met@cabaniss.com 

Initial contact with this attorney by email does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Areas of Practice:

Labor and Employment
Workers Compensation
Civil Litigation
Business and Commercial
     Litigation

Education:

J.D., cum laude, Wake Forest
     University, 1996, Wake Forest
     Law Review, 1994-1996, Wake
     Forest Moot Court Board, 1994-
     1996, Order of the Coif
 
B.A., University of North Carolina
     at Chapel Hill, 1993

Admitted to Practice:

Alabama State Bar (1996)
United States Supreme Court
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court for the
     Northern District of Alabama
U.S. District Court for the Middle
     District of Alabama
U.S. District Court for the
     Southern District of Alabama

Michael E. Turner

Michael Turner was born in Shelby, North Carolina on June 12, 1971. He has practiced law in Birmingham since graduating law school in 1996. Michael earned the Eagle Scout award from the Boy Scouts of America in 1989.

Michael’s practice encompasses a wide variety of subject areas, with a significant portion of his practice involving the defense of employers in employment-related litigation in both federal and state courts and before administrative agencies. Michael's employment law practice includes advising clients on employment-related issues before they have reached litigation, including the drafting of written employment policies and procedures.

Michael also has considerable experience in the defense of workers' compensation claims. Michael's litigation practice also includes representing clients in business-related disputes, such as breach of contract and collection cases, and defending fraud-based claims, toxic torts (including asbestos), and other personal-injury claims.

Michael has handled cases in all of Alabama's federal courts and in state courts throughout the state, as well as appeals to Alabama's appellate courts, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Michael is a member of the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association and the Defense Research Institute. He is also a member of the Birmingham and American Bar Associations.