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D. W. Wilson
Member
Direct Tuscaloosa: (205) 633-0216
Gulf Shores: (251) 968-0200
Fax Tuscaloosa: (205) 633-0316
Fax Gulf Shores: (251) 968-0590
dwilson@tannerguin.com
Practice Emphasis
Mr. Wilson has more than 20 years' experience in providing day-to-day legal counsel to business owners and operators.  He routinely represents companies in their purchases and sales of business units, real estate transactions, business transition planning, environmental issues, and complex litigation and alternative dispute resolution.  Over the years, he has frequently represented manufacturing companies, as well as large property owners, commercial contractors, automobile and equipment dealers, and professional service firms.  Mr. Wilson also assists clients with resolution of their employee disputes and tax issues.
Representative Clients
  • Amason & Associates, Inc.
  • Bama Concrete Products Co., Inc.
  • CFM Group, LLC
  • Champion Enterprises, Inc.
  • Comcast Cablevision, Inc.
  • Corus Group plc
  • Embassy One Real Estate, Inc.
  • Fitts Industries, Inc.
  • Friday Lumber Company, Incorporated
  • Greene Building Company
  • Jeffco Concrete Contractors, Inc.
  • JVC America, Inc.
  • Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc.
  • Premier Service Corporation
  • RaCON, Inc.
  • Rite Aid Corporation
  • Tuscaloosa Steel Corporation
  • Tuscaloosa Toyota
  • Unimin Corporation
  • WAR Construction, Inc.
  • Warrior of Arkansas, Inc.
  • Warrior Tractor & Equipment Company, Inc.

Memberships
Mr. Wilson is a member of the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution State Court Mediation Roster (2000-); Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution State Court Arbitration Roster (2003-); Environmental Resources Committee, Business Council of Alabama (1990-2000); West Alabama Environmental Roundtable (2006-); Chairman Progress PAC Region 6 Advisory Committee  (2003); Board of Directors of Future PAC (1988-2005); Chairman of Future PAC (2006); Associated General Contractors of America (Associate Member); West Alabama Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors and Vice-President for Governmental Affairs for the Chamber; Chair of the Environmental Task Force (1990-2003); West Alabama Chamber Foundation, Board of Directors (2003-2005); Exchange Club of Tuscaloosa, Board of Directors (2003-2006); President, Alabama Choir School (2002-2003).
Professional Involvement
  • American Bar Association [(Member, Section of Business Law) Vice-Chair, Environmental Transactions and Brownfields Committee (1993-1998); Chair, Subcommittee on Environmental Issues in Business Transactions for the Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law Committee of the Business Law Section (2004-2007); Member, Brownfields Task Force (1995-2000); Member, Environmental Controls Committee (1995-1998); Member, Small Business Committee (2003); Executive Committees, Young Lawyers Division, Environmental Law and Natural Resources Committee (1990-95), and Debtor-Creditor Relations Committee (1990-93); Young Lawyers Division Liaison to Forum Committee on Franchising (1991-93)]
  • Alabama State Bar [Chair, Section of Environmental Law (1995-96); Executive Committee, Section of Environmental Law (1991-2005); Executive Committee, Young Lawyers Section (1987-93)]

  • Tuscaloosa County Bar Association [President, Section of Bankruptcy Law (1995-96); President, Young Lawyers Section (1991-92); Executive Committee, Young Lawyers Section (1991-95)]

Honors and Awards
He served as Associate Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 1981-1982. Listed in Law & Business Directory of Environmental Attorneys as nationally recognized environmental counsel.  He served as Special Assistant Attorney General, State of Alabama, from 1985-88.
Publications

  • Editor, The Alabama EnLaw (1991-95).
     

  • Editor or Contributing Author, Natural Resources Law/The Year in Review, ABA Section of Environmental, Energy, and Resources Law, 1994 and 1996-2001.
  • Author, "Recent Decision - Constitutional Law," Vol. 15, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 1982.
Education and Professional Background

Education: The University of Alabama (B.A., Political Science, magna cum laude, 1979); Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1982). Phi Beta Kappa; Pi Sigma Alpha; Phi Delta Phi

Bar Association & Court Admissions: Admitted to bar, 1982, Alabama. U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; U.S. District Court Northern District, Middle District, and Southern District of Alabama; U.S. Tax Court
Reported Cases
General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. City of Red Bay, et al. 2004 WL 1418680 (Ala. 2004)

Jimmy Cockrell v. Tuscaloosa Steel Corporation Ala. Civ. App. LEXIS 657 (September 12, 2003)

Patterson v. Gladwin Corp. 835 So. 2d 137 (Ala. 2002); cert. denied Millcraft-SMS Serv. v. Underwood, 537 U.S. 974 (2002)

General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. City of Red Bay & Franklin County 825 So. 2d 746 (Ala. 2002)

Southdown v. Allen 119 F.Supp 2d 1223 (N.D. Ala. 2000) (representing a third-party defendant)

S. Cent. Bell Tel. Co. v. State 789 So. 2d 147 (Ala. 2000) (amicus filing on behalf of 63 foreign corporations)

S. Cent. Bell Tel. Co. v. State 789 So. 2d 133 (Ala. 1999)

Smith v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. 672 So. 2d 794 (Ala. Civ. App. 1995)

Cody v. Louisville & Nashville R.R. Co. 535 So. 2d 82 (Ala. 1988)

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