About Sharon
Sharon Stuart devotes her practice to civil trial work and arbitration. She focuses on complex commercial and insurance litigation, and she handles a variety of product liability cases including pharmaceutical and medical device products liability litigation as national, regional or local counsel. Her trial experience includes a wide range of business tort claims, contract disputes, commercial and insurance fraud and bad faith suits, and wrongful death cases. She has defended dozens of class action lawsuits in areas as diverse as product liability/toxic tort, financial products, insurance and employment law.Sharon’s approach is to become a business partner with her clients, to become fluent in their business, and to assist them with clearly defining their objectives and the process for meeting those goals. By collaborating in this way, she can provide the most effective counsel possible. Working closely with the offices of general counsel of several major corporations has afforded Sharon the opportunity to interact with business clients and develop an understanding of the dynamics associated with those relationships. This experience allows Sharon to steadily, yet diplomatically, guide her clients in lawfully accomplishing their business objectives.
Sharon Stuart devotes her practice to civil trial work and arbitration. She focuses on complex commercial and insurance litigation, and she handles a variety of product liability cases including pharmaceutical and medical device products liability litigation as national, regional or local counsel. Her trial experience includes a wide range of business tort claims, contract disputes, commercial and insurance fraud and bad faith suits, and wrongful death cases. She has defended dozens of class action lawsuits in areas as diverse as product liability/toxic tort, financial products, insurance and employment law.
Sharon’s approach is to become a business partner with her clients, to become fluent in their business, and to assist them with clearly defining their objectives and the process for meeting those goals. By collaborating in this way, she can provide the most effective counsel possible. Working closely with the offices of general counsel of several major corporations has afforded Sharon the opportunity to interact with business clients and develop an understanding of the dynamics associated with those relationships. This experience allows Sharon to steadily, yet diplomatically, guide her clients in lawfully accomplishing their business objectives.
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Education
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Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Insurance Law, Birmingham (2026)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Insurance, Birmingham (2020)
- Lawyer of the Year: Insurance Law, Birmingham (2018)
- Recognized: Appellate Practice
- Recognized: Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Recognized: Commercial Litigation
- Recognized: Insurance Law
- Recognized: Litigation - Insurance
- Recognized: Litigation - Labor and Employment
- Recognized: Litigation - Securities
- Recognized: Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- Recognized: Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
- Practice Area: Litigation - Environmental
- Practice Area: Reinsurance Law
- Special Focus: Civil Litigation
- Special Focus: Class Actions
- Special Focus: Complex Litigation
- Special Focus: Insurance
- Special Focus: Mass Tort
- Special Focus: Product Liability
- Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 – 2016 in the categories of commercial litigation, labor & employment litigation, securities litigation, product liability defense litigation, mass tort litigation/class actions and insurance law
- AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell
- Selected for inclusion in Benchmark Appellate as Eleventh Circuit Litigation Star in Alabama 2012 and 2013
- Selected for inclusion in Benchmark Litigation’s list of Alabama Future Litigation Stars 2009-2015
- Selected for inclusion in Benchmark Top 250 Women in Litigation 2012-2014
- Selected for inclusion in Alabama Super Lawyers® 2010-2015 in the fields of business litigation, insurance coverage, product liability defense
- Selected for inclusion in Top 25 Women Alabama Super Lawyers® 2010-2015
- Listed in the Birmingham Business Journal’s “Best of the Birmingham Bar” in Insurance Law