Background
Weller, Christopher W. was born on January 24, 1962 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.
Weller, Christopher W. was born on January 24, 1962 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.
Furman University (Bachelor of Arts, 1984). Cumberland School of Law of Samford University (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1987).
Worked at Capell, Howard, Knabe & Cobbs, P.A. (Montgomery, Alabama) specializing in General Civil Practice. Trials in all State and Federal Courts. Administrative, Antitrust, Banking, Bankruptcy, Communications, Construction, Corporate and Municipal Finance, Employee Benefits, Employment Discrimination, Energy, Environmental, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Estate and Trust, Family, Government Contracts, Health Care, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International, Labor, Legislative, Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Mergers and Acquisitions, Motor Carrier, Oil and Gas, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Real Estate, Securities, Tax, Telecommunications, Transportation, Utility and Workers" Compensation Law.
Admitted to the bar, 1987, Alabama.
United States. District Court, Middle and Northern Districts of Alabama. United States. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin.
United States. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina 1988, United States.
Army Court of Military Appeals. Phi Gamma Museum Member, Curia Honoris.
Casenote Editor, Cumberland Law Review, 1986-1987. Comment Author: "Comment, See Number Evil: The Divisive Issue of Minor"s Access Laws," 18 Cumberland Law Review 141, 1987.
Comment, "Bowers V. Hardwick: Balancing the Competing Interests of Privacy and Morality," 16 Cumberland Law Review 555, 1986.
Company-Authored: "C. Bonnell & C. Weller, Alabama Wrongful Death Damages Number Longer Taxable," Alabama Law, September 1986. "Lobbying PACS and Campaign Finance Reform --50 State Handbook (Alabama)," West Publishing Company, 1996. Member: Alabama State Bar.
American Bar Association.
Alabama Defense Lawyers Association. Defense Research Institute.
Military: Captain, United States. Army, 1987-1991
Capell, Howard, Knabe & Cobbs, P.A. began as a two-member partnership of Jack Capell and Fontaine Howard in 1947, expanded to four members in 1953 and became a 14 member professional association in 1971.
The firm was then and continues to be one of the largest law firms in Montgomery, Alabama.
The firm presently consists of 34 lawyers specializing in a broad spectrum of legal services and representing a diverse clientele in Alabama and the Southeast. The lawyers in the firm have differing academic backgrounds, holding degrees from 16 undergraduate universities and 13 law schools. The firm-owned office complex is located in the center of Montgomery"s legal, financial and governmental area, only a block from both the Federal Courthouse and the Montgomery County Courthouse in downtown Montgomery.
Member, Curia Honoris. Casenote Editor, Cumberland Law Review, 1986-1987.