Background
Cotter, R. Rainer was born on June 14, 1966 in Enterprise, Alabama, United States.
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R. Rainer Cotter
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Auburn University (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1988). Cumberland School of Law of Samford University (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1991).
Career
Worked at Cassady, Fuller & Marsh, Limited Liability Partnership (Enterprise, Alabama) specializing in General Civil Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Trials, Insurance Defense, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Worker"s Compensation, Commercial and Corporate Law. Admitted to the bar, 1991, Alabama.
United States.
Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. United States. District Court, Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama. Recipient: Cordell Hull Legal Research and Writing Fellowship.
Edwin L. Rollison Award for Writing Excellence.
American Jurisprudence Award in Contracts World War II Associate Editor, American Journal of Trial Advocacy. Law Clerk to Honorable Daniel H. Thomas, Senior United States District Judge, Southern District of Alabama.
Author, "Wrongful Death Actions Involving a Viable Unborn Child," 14 Am J. Trial Adviser. 195, (1990). Appointed Deputy Attorney General, State of Alabama, 1995.
Hearing Officer, Alabama Environmental Management Commission.
Member: Coffee County and American Bar Associations. Alabama State Bar; Alabama Defense Lawyers Association. The firm of Cassady, Fuller & Marsh traces its roots in Enterprise and Coffee County, Alabama, to 1917 when Joseph C. Yarbrough, Senior began the practice of Law in Enterprise.
Joe C. Cassady, Senior joined the firm in 1950 and the firm became Yarbrough & Cassady.
Upon the retirement of Mr. Yarbrough in 1957, Joe C. Cassady, Senior continued the practice and was joined by Kenneth T. Fuller in 1970 and the firm became known as Cassady & Fuller.
M. Dale Marsh joined in the firm in 1974 and the firm became Cassady, Fuller & Marsh in 1976.
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Member: Coffee County and American Bar Associations. Alabama State Bar; Alabama Defense Lawyers Association.
