Background
Hart, J. Mark was born on August 6, 1953 in Anniston, Alabama, United States.
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J. Mark Hart
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Auburn University (Bachelor of Science, 1975). Cumberland School of Law of Samford University (Juris Doctor, 1978).
Career
Worked at Olschner & Hart, Professional Corporation (Birmingham, Alabama) specializing in Insurance Defense, Civil Trial and Appellate Practice. Admitted to the bar, 1978, Alabama. United States. District Court, Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama.
United States.
Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. United States. Supreme Court. Member, Cumberland Law Review, 1976-1978.
Law Clerk to Honorary Community College Torbett, Junior, Chief Justice, Alabama Supreme Court, 1978.
Author: "Wrongful Supervision: New Attention on an Old Tort," 55 Alabama Law. 96 (March, 1994).
"The Constitutionality of Punitive Damages: Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Haslip," 21 Cumb. L. Review
585, (1990-1991). Company-Author: "The Constitutionality of Punitive Damages," Dirty Rotten Imbeciles Foreign The Defense 12 (December 1990).
"Fraud in Insurance Contract Litigation - A Defense Viewpoint," 16 Cumb. L. Review 447 (1985-1986). Member: Defense Research Institute.
International Association of Defense Counsel.
Alabama Defense Lawyers Association (Chairman, Amicus Curiae, 1992-1996). Olschner & Hart, Professional Corporation, is committed to excellence in providing quality legal services.
The firm, originally formed in 1989, provides complete civil litigation services from trials to appeals. The practice areas include insurance defense, insurance coverage, personal injury, employment law, fraud, and the tort of bad faith.
The firm has an active appellate practice, including consultation in post-trial proceedings and appeals in punitive damages cases.
The lawyers have tried to verdict in excess of ninety-five jury trials and have participated in more than ninety appeals, including cases in the United States Supreme Court.
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Membership
Member, Cumberland Law Review, 1976-1978. Law Clerk to Honorary Community College Torbett, Junior, Chief Justice, Alabama Supreme Court, 1978.
