SMGB People:
Professional Credentials:
Registered Mediator; Registered Appellate Mediator; Registered Arbitrator;
Commercial Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association; Real Estate
Broker, Alabama Notary Public.
Courses, Speeches and Legal Seminars:
Domestic:
- Hot Topics in Banking Law: Class Action Arbitrations in Alabama,
February 15, 2008 presented at the "2008 Banking Law" Seminar for the Alabama
Bar Institute for Continuing Legal Education
- Practice Pointers in Arbitration
from the Defendant's Perspective, October 26, 2007 presented at the "Keys to
Successful Arbitration" Seminar for the Cumberland School of Law Continuing
Legal Education Seminar in Birmingham, Alabama
- Moderator of the "Keys to
Successful Arbitration" Seminar for the Cumberland School of Law Continuing
Legal Education Seminar in Birmingham, Alabama, October 26, 2007
- The Contours
of Arbitration Discovery: Discovery Before, During and After the Hearing, April
28, 2005
- presented at the "Do We Need Discovery in Arbitration?" Seminar for
the American Arbitration Association in Birmingham, Alabama
- Moderator of the
"How to Win in Arbitration" Seminar for the Cumberland School of Law Continuing
Legal Education Seminar in Birmingham, Alabama, October 29, 2004
- Drafting an
Enforceable Consumer Arbitration Agreement, October 29, 2004 presented at the
"How to Win in Arbitration" Seminar for the Cumberland School of Law Continuing
Legal Education Seminar in Birmingham, Alabama
- Mediation Strategies and Current
Issues in Arbitration, October 25, 2002, presented at the "Pre-Trial Practice
and Procedure" Seminar for the Alabama Bar Institute for Continuing Legal
Education in Birmingham, Alabama
- Arbitration of Consumer Claims – the Southern
Homes Experience, April 26, 2001, presented at the "Top Gun" Litigation
Management Super Course for the Network of Trial Law Firms, Inc. in San Diego,
California
International:- Appellate Mediation, March 25, 2004, presented
before the Appellate Courts of Brazil, San Paulo, Brazil
- Environmental Law in
the United States, March 22 - 24, 2004, presented at three campuses of the
Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (the largest law school in Brazil) in San
Paolo, Brazil
- Taught International Arbitration at Cambridge University,
Cambridge England, July 2006. Scheduled to teach Alternative Dispute Resolution
at Cambridge University, Cambridge England, July 2008
Publications:
- W. Scott Simpson and Gordon Blair, The Magnuson Moss Act Defense to
Arbitration: What's Left After Davis v. Southern Energy Homes, Inc., 64
Ala. Law. 367 (November 2003)
- W. Scott Simpson, Stephan J. Ware & Vickie M.
Willard, The Source of Alabama's Abundance of Arbitration Cases: Alabama's
Bizarre Law of Damages for Mental Anguish, 28 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 135
(2004)
- W. Scott Simpson and Omer Kesikli, The Contours of Arbitration
Discovery, 67 Ala. Law. 280 (2006)
Academic:
Adjunct Professor of Law, Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, 2003 -
present. Regularly teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Law
Earned a B.A. degree, with honors (graduated 6th in class) from the University
of Florida in 1989Earned a J.D. degree from the Cumberland School of Law at
Samford University, Magna Cum Laude (graduated 5th in class) in 1993
- Law school awards and memberships:
- Curia Honoris, 1994
- Presidential
Scholarship Recipient
- Leadership Scholarship Recipient
- Research Editor,
Cumberland Law Review, 1992-93
- Cumberland Law Review, 1991-93
-
Justice, Honor Court, 1991-93
- Cumberland Trial Board, 1992-93
- Cumberland Moot
Court Board, 1992-93
- Dean's List and National Dean's List, 1991-93
- Who's Who
Among American Law Students
- Best Advocate, Robert B. Donworth Appellate
Argument Comp., 1992
- Finalist (2nd Place), Judge James O. Haley Federal Court
Comp., 1992
- American Jurisprudence Book Award - Constitutional Law I
- Phi Kappa
Phi Honor Society
- Cordell Hull Teaching Fellow
Post Graduate work at the University of Alabama, Birmingham Graduate School of
Business