Career
Worked at Bishop, Colvin, Johnson & Kent (Birmingham, Alabama) specializing in General Practice. Tort, Administrative, Education, Municipal, Motor Carrier and Corporate Law, Condemnation, Probate, Trusts and Estates, Foundations, Real Estate, Employment Law, Products Liability. (1913-1982)
The firm was founded in 1938 by Maurice Bishop.
Over the years, Mr.
Bishop developed specialties in utilities and motor carrier regulation, eminent domain, probate and estate administration, tort, contract, and education law, and was a leader in these fields prior to his death in 1982. The firm has continued to offer a general civil practice specializing in these same areas. Gerald Doctorate. Colvin and Carl East. Johnson, Junior, practiced with Mr.
Bishop for several years until his death.
Burgin H. Kent joined the firm in 1983 and is now a partner. The firm provides full representation to the Jefferson County Board of Education, the City of Trussville, Alabama, the Utilities Board of the City of Trussville, Alabama, and the University of Montevallo.
lieutenant practices regularly before the Alabama Public Service Commission and various other state agencies as well as in all state and federal courts in the state of Alabama.
