Larry Childs is a partner at Waller Lansden, located in the firm's Birmingham office. His legal practice focuses on complex litigation, frequently in the financial services, manufacturing and construction industries. Mr. Childs is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White, Inc.) for his banking law experience. He has extensive trial and appellate experience in both state and federal courts. In addition to cases in Alabama, Mr. Childs has served as lead counsel in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Illinois and New York. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and five United States Courts of Appeal.
Mr. Childs' diverse litigation practice ranges from consumer class actions to industrial plant explosions. He has represented banks in a wide variety of actions, including lender liability suits, bookkeeper embezzlement cases, personal and corporate trust matters, lending discrimination claims and cases under the uniform commercial code. Mr. Childs served as lead counsel for the State of Alabama in its successful effort to end a long-running class action case involving the State's child welfare system. In recent years he has defended several wrongful death suits. He has prosecuted and defended several large arbitrations, including two cases recently concluded in the International Court of Arbitrations. He has successfully defended several shareholder derivative lawsuits and represented witnesses and corporations in grand jury testimony and criminal investigations. He is a frequent seminar speaker on financial institutions and complex litigation topics.
Education
J.D., University of Virginia, 1977
Order of the Coif
B.A., magna cum laude, University of Alabama, 1974
Member, Phi Beta Kappa
Clerkships and Previous Affiliations
Law Clerk to the Honorable Seybourn H. Lynne, United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
