Charlene P. Ford

cford@wdklaw.com 
Birmingham Office
205-328-9576, vCard

Of Counsel
Ms. Ford, formerly a partner with Whatley Drake & Kallas, now serves as Of Counsel with the firm. She concentrates her practice in the areas of class actions, complex litigation, small business law and business litigation as well as appellate practice. Ms. Ford had a prominent role in class action litigation against many major insurance companies on behalf of minorities, In re Monumental Life Insurance Company, which successfully sought redress for discriminatory practices with respect to the sale of life insurance products. She is active in the firm’s cases on behalf of physicians in In re Managed Care Litigation which successfully sought monetary and practice changes to physicians valued in excess of one billion dollars. She is a member of the Alabama Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. She is a member of the Birmingham and American Bar Associations, Alabama State Bar, Alabama Association for Justice, and American Association for Justice.

Ms. Ford is a graduate of the University of Montevallo (B.S., summa cum laude, 1982) and Cumberland School of Law of Samford University (J.D., summa cum laude, 1993) where she was a Member (1991-1993) and Comment Editor (1992-1993) of the Cumberland Law Review. Following law school, she served as law clerk to the Honorable Judge William M. Acker, Jr., U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama. Ms. Ford is the author of "Rule 11: Due Process Reconsidered," 22 Cumberland Law Review 729, 1991-1992. She was born in Limestone County, Alabama.

Reported Cases: PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc. v. Book, 538 U.S. 401, 123 S.Ct. 1531 (2003); Klay v. Humana, Inc., 382 F.3d 1241 (11th Cir. 2004); McFarlin v. Conseco Services, L.L.C., 381 F.3d 1251 (11th Cir. 2004); In re Humana Inc. Managed Care Litigation, 333 F.3d 1247 (11th Cir. 2003); In re Humana Inc. Managed Care Litigation, 285 F.3d 971 (11th Cir. 2002); In re Managed Care Litigation, 246 F.Supp.2d 1363 (Jud. Pan. Mult. Lit. 2003); In re Managed Care Litigation, 236 F.Supp.2d 1336 (S.D. Fla. 2002); In re Managed Care Litigation, 209 F.R.D. 678 (S.D. Fla. 2002); In re Managed Care Litigation, 135 F. Supp.2d 1235 (S.D. Fla. 2001); Moore v. Liberty Nat. Ins.Co., 108 F.Supp.2d 1266 (N.D. Ala. 2000); Avis Rent A Car Systems, Inc. v. Heilman, 876 So.2d 1111 (Ala. 2003); Yeager v. General Motors Acceptance Corp., 719 So.2d 210 (Ala. 1998); Johnson v. Garlock, 682 So.2d 25 (Ala. 1996).