Attorneys

Jimmy E. White

Mr. White is an experienced trial attorney defending clients in complex product liability, commercial, insurance, and personal injury litigation and also has an active domestic relations practice. Mr. White is a member of Hughes Pfiffner Gorski Seedorf & Odsen, LLC, joining the firm in 2004.

Mr. White’s product liability experience includes construction product and pharmaceutical litigation in single plaintiff, multi-party, class action, and multi-district litigation. Complex business litigation experience includes representation of companies as plaintiff and defendant in business-tort and RICO cases and cases involving fiduciary fraud, officer and agent disloyalty, lender liability and commercial contract disputes.

Mr. White also represents several insurers and their clients in personal injury and bad faith litigation and was recently named as one of The Best Lawyers in America in the field of insurance law.

EDUCATION

B.S., 1995, University of Alaska, Anchorage, cum laude, various academic and leadership awards
J.D., 1999, Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, cum laude

Brainerd Currie Scholar, Moot Court Board, Mercer Law Review, Advanced Legal Writing Certification, Dean’s List, various additional academic awards

BAR ADMISSIONS

Supreme Court of Georgia, 1999
Supreme Court of Alaska, 2005
Northern District of Georgia, 1999
District Court for the Federal District of Alaska, 2006
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, 2000

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Bar Association

Tort Trial and Insurance Practice section and committee member Litigation section member Georgia Bar Association

Alaska Bar Association

Pro Bono Service committee member Family Law section member Insurance Law section member

Defense Research Institute (“DRI”)

Alaska State Representative Electronic Discovery section and committee member Insurance Law section and committee member Product Liability section member

Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (“ADTA”)

LECTURES AND PUBLICATIONS

Tort Law Desk Reference: A Fifty-State Compendium, Alaska, Aspen Law & Business (2006, 2007 and 2008 eds.);
DRI Duty to Warn Compendium: A Fifty-State Compendium, Alaska (DRI Publications, 2007);
ARMA Annual Conference faculty, Electronic Record-Keeping Requirements and Litigation Preparation (2007 and 2008);
Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor: The Supreme Court Defines the Standard for Settlement Class Action Certification, 49 Mercer L. Rev. 809, (Spring 1998);
Environmental Justice: Is Disparate Impact Enough, 50 Mercer L. Rev. 1155 (Summer, 1999).

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