ENGEL, HAIRSTON & JOHANSON, P.C.

                                                     ATTORNEYS AT LAW

4th Floor, 109 North Twentieth Street
P.O. Box 11405 (35202)
Birmingham, Alabama  35203
Telephone: (205) 328-4600
Fax: (205) 328-4698



William B. Hairston, III

bhairston@ehjlaw.com

Practice Areas

  • Commercial Finance
  • Loan Documentation
  • SBA Lending
  • Real Estate

Education

  • J. D. , The University of Alabama School of Law 1983.
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  • B. S. , Cornell University, 1980.
    • Tau Beta Pi

  • Affiliations

    American Bar Association

    • Member, Opinion Letters Committee, 1990-
    • Member, Loan Documentation Committee, 1988-
    • Member, Commercial Financial Services Committee, 1987-
    • Member, UCC Committee

    Alabama State Bar Association

    • Chair, Committee on Rules of Professional Conduct, 1993-98
    • Reporter, 1983 - 1993

    Birmingham Bar Association

    • Member, Professionalism Long Range Task Force, 1999-
    • Member, Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, 1996-98
    • Chair, Ethics Committee, 1994-95
    • Member, Fee Arbitration Committee, 1990-91
    • Member, Grievance Committee, 1987-89

    Rotary Club of Birmingham, 2003-

    Alabama Law Institute

    • Member, Committee on Article 9 of the UCC, 1999-2001
    • Member, Committee on Article 5 of the UCC, 1996-97
    • Member, Committee on Articles 3 & 4 of the UCC, 1993-96
    • Member, Committee on Article 4A of the UCC, 1991
    • Member, Committee on Article 2A of the UCC, 1990
    • Member, Committee on Article I of the UCC
    • Member, Real Estate Standency Committee

    The Florida Bar


    The Georgia Bar

    American Bar Foundation,

    • Life Fellow, 1994-

    Alabama Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Civil Rules and Practice and Procedure for District Courts'

    • Member, 1988-

    Publications

    "The Ranking of Attorney Lien Against Other Liens in the United States,"
    7 Journal of the Legal Profession, 1983, 1982. "Repossession and Disposition of Personal Property,"
    section of Foreclosure and Repossession in Alabama, NBI, 1987, 1989, 1991.

    "How to Close SBA 504 Transactions,"
    National Association of Development Co., 1992.


    Teaching

    Lecturer, CLE Programs
    University of Alabama School of Law and Cumberland School of Law


    William B. Hairston, Jr. Charles R. Johanson, III
    William B. Hairston, III Alto Lee Teague, IV
    Jonathan E. Raulston William C. Brown
    Haley D. Bozeman John R. Bowles

    © 2002 Engel, Hairston & Johanson, P.C.

    last updated April 2009

    "No representation is made that the quality of the legal services to be performed is greater than the legal services performed by other lawyers."