Al Teel – Young Lawyers Section
Members Who Motivate Us
Q. As incoming chair of the Young Lawyers Section, please tell us your top two goals for the Section next year? A. My top goals for the Section next year
are: 1) to collaborate with other Sections within the Bar and other young professional organizations in Birmingham through joint social events, community service, and CLE opportunities; and 2) to provide our members with opportunities to showcase their unique set of talents and passion for community service. As this past year has demonstrated, this younger generation of lawyers is uniquely situated and specially equipped in responding to and leading on pressing issues within our legal community. Finally, overall, I think, in light of the pandemic, next year will be about reuniting our members with one another and increasing membership. Al Teel, center, with colleagues at a YLS event.
Q. Who have been your
professional role models in your career and why? A. The person who inspired me to become
a lawyer, Randy Haynes, from my hometown of Alexander City, Alabama, and the person who has raised me from a “pup” at Burr & Forman, Turner Williams. During my time at Burr, Turner has shown me that it is actually possible to be a first-rate trial lawyer and a gentleman as well. I have learned from both of my professional role models the importance of not only being a good lawyer but of being a good person out in the community at-large as well.
Q. If you could pursue a different career, what would it be and why? A. I truly love being a lawyer, especially
brief-writing and interacting with other lawyers and judges. But, if I could pick anything, I would be a sports journalist/ beat writer, follow a team through a season, and then write a novel about it.
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