Four partners in Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP — Leigh Anne Hodge, Lela M. Hollabaugh, Angela Holt, and Kimberly B. Martin — have been named to Benchmark Litigation’s Top 250 Women in Litigation 2019.
Ina release, the firm said Hodge, a member of Bradley’s Healthcare Practice Group and assistant leader of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group, represents clients in the healthcare industry in regional and national engagements. She represents and counsels clients in the healthcare industry in product liability litigation, medical malpractice litigation, peer review and staff privileges matters, administrative hearings before licensure board, ERISA litigation, Medicare Advantage plan litigation, managed care litigation, insurance disputes, and insurance fraud cases. Hodge is based in Bradley’s Birmingham office.
Managing partner of Bradley’s Nashville, Tenn., office, Hollabaugh has served as the lead trial lawyer in more than a dozen jury trials, as well as more than two dozen bench trials, arbitrations and administrative hearings. She advises leading natural gas pipeline companies and other infrastructure clients on issues involving location, land acquisition, construction, and operations. She also represents leading pharmaceutical, medical device and other manufacturers in matters ranging from individual lawsuits to mass tort cases around the country.
Based in Bradley’s Huntsville, Ala., office, Holt is a registered patent agent and a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. She focuses her practice on litigation involving intellectual property, commercial and business issues, and high‐technology issues. Her cases have involved patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, government contracting disputes (including bid protests), domain‐name disputes, breach of contract, employee disputes, and restrictive covenants. She has experience prosecuting patent, copyright, and trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office. She also has litigated many inter partes trademark opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Based in Bradley’s Huntsville office, Martin focuses her practice on general litigation with an emphasis on medical device and pharmaceutical products liability litigation, as well as white collar matters and False Claims Act litigation. She has tried cases in state and federal court. Most recently, she served as trial counsel successfully defending a nationwide hospice provider in a three-month False Claim Act trial brought by the U.S. Department of Justice. Martin serves as chair of Bradley’s Litigation Practice Group and has represented multi-national pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers in litigation across the country.
Now in its eighth edition, the Top 250 Women in Litigation determines honorees through research of litigators’ professional activities as well as client feedback from surveys and individual interviews. According to Benchmark Litigation, “These women have earned their place amongst the leading female litigators by participating in some of the most impactful litigation matters in recent history as well as by earning the hard-won respect of their peers and clients.”
