Areas of Practice
- Banking & Financial Services Litigation
- Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors'-Debtors' Rights
- Business & Commercial Litigation
- Construction
- Environmental & Toxic Torts
Education
- University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1987
- The University of Alabama, M.S.E., 1984, with honors
- The University of Alabama, B.S.A.E., 1983, summa cum laude
Bar Admissions
- Alabama, 1987
Ellis Brazeal is a partner in the firm's Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group and practices from the firm's Birmingham office. He has more than 20 years of experience in commercial litigation, including all levels of state, federal, and bankruptcy courts. His areas of expertise include the representation of financial institutions, construction and surety litigation, and environmental law.
Mr. Brazeal's representation of financial institutions has involved a specific focus on creditors' rights in bankruptcy. In the construction arena, he has represented owners, contractors, and suppliers, both in negotiating contracts and in litigating and arbitrating disputes. His practice in the environmental field includes litigation; administrative proceedings; and providing counsel to owners of real property, as to both greenfield and brownfield sites; and operators of businesses.
Mr. Brazeal is an adjunct professor at the College of Engineering for The University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he regularly teaches a course in Engineering Law and a course in Environmental Law.
Noteworthy
- AV® Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC) in the area of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization law
Representative Matters
- Horton v. Alexander, 977 So.2d 462, 2007 WL 2019588 (Ala. 2007)
- U.S. v. Mountain Metal Co., 137 F. Supp.2d 1267 (N.D. Ala. 2001)
- B&G, LLC v. AmSouth Bank, N.A., 716 So.2d 1263 (Ala.Civ. App.1998)
- Southern Energy Homes, Inc., v. AmSouth Bank of Alabama, 709 So.2d 1180 (Ala. 1998)
- City of Mountain Brook v. Green Valley Partners I, 690 So.2d 359 (Ala. 1997)
- Ex parte AmSouth Bank of Alabama, 669 So.2d 154 (Ala. 1995)
News
- Eighty-Two Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012
- Brazeal Quoted in the Birmingham Business Journal
- Brazeal to Present at NBI Environmental Law Seminar
- Jones Walker Combines with Birmingham-Based Walston Wells
- Brazeal Establishes New Case Law on Fraudulent Transfers
Presentations
- "Environmental Law from A to Z", June 12, 2010
Memberships
- Alabama State Bar
- American Bar Association
- Birmingham Bar Association
