Tammy McClendon Stokes

Partner

Email: tstokes@dglawfirm.com

205-503-4512 (Direct)
Fax: 205-226-2357

Legal Assistant : Tressy Wilson
Email: tressyw@dglawfirm.com
205-503-4506 (Direct)

 

Since joining the firm in 1998, Tammy Stokes has exercised lead roles in many of the firm’s highest profile cases, including the HealthSouth Bondholder Litigation, the Culpepper mortgage litigation under RESPA, our OSB (Oriented Strand Board) price-fixing litigation, and Kentucky Dept. of Revenue v. Davis, which she took all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Stokes’ practice is focused upon business litigation and financial class actions, especially in the areas of securities, antitrust, ERISA, tax and mortgage litigation.

Ms. Stokes graduated cum laude from the Cumberland School of Law in 1998. While at Cumberland, Ms. Stokes served as an Associate Editor of the Cumberland Law Review and as a member of the Cumberland National Moot Court Team.  Ms. Stokes obtained her B.S. degree in International Business from Samford University in 1995, graduating magna cum laude.

Ms. Stokes became a member of the Alabama Bar in 1998, and has been admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Alabama, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the Birmingham Bar Association. 

Practice Areas:
Business Litigation
Securities Litigation
Antitrust Litigation
Class Action Litigation
Mortgage Lending Litigation
Lending Discrimination
Consumer Class Actions
Financial Litigation
Derivative Securities Litigation
Institutional Investors
Price-Fixing Cases
Discriminatory Interstate Taxation Litigation
Appellate Advocacy
Constitutional Law

Educational Background:
B.S. magna cum laude, International Business, Samford University, 1995
J.D., cum laude, Cumberland School of Law, 1998

Admitted to Practice:
Alabama
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama
U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court

Law School Honors:
Cumberland Law Review
National Moot Court Team
Curia Honoris

Bar Associations:
American Bar Association
Alabama Bar Association
Birmingham Bar Association
NASCAT - National Association of Securities and Consumer Attorneys

Languages:
Spanish

Selected Published Decisions:
U.S. Supreme Court
Dept. of Rev. of Kentucky v. Davis, 553 U.S. 328 (2008)

Irwin Mortg. Corp. v. Culpepper, 534 U.S. 1118 (2002) (Denial of cert.).

Circuit Courts of Appeal
Culpepper v. Irwin Mortg. Corp., 253 F.3d 1324 (11th Cir. 2001), rehearing denied, 273 F.3d 1118 (11th Cir. 2001), cert. denied, 534 U.S. 1118 (2002).

Nunnally v. Equifax Information Services, LLC, 451 F.3d 768 (11th Cir. 2006)

Heimmermann v. First Union Mortg. Corp., 305 F.3d 1257 (11th Cir. 2002)

District Court Decisions
In re OSB Antitrust Litig., 2009 WL 579376 (3/4/2009); 2007 WL 2253418 (8/3/2007); 2007 WL 2253419 (8-3-2007)

Dujanovic v. MortgageAmerica, Inc., 185 F.R.D. 660 (N.D. Ala. 1999).

Heimmermann v. First Union Mortgage Corp., 188 F.R.D. 403 (N.D. Ala. 1999).

Culpepper v. Inland Mortgage Corp., 189 F.R.D. 668 (N.D. Ala. 1999), aff'd, 253 F.3d 1324 (11th Cir. 2001), rehearing denied, 273 F.3d 1118 (11th Cir. 2001), cert. denied, 534 U.S. 1118 (2002).