Josh D. Jones

Josh Jones' priority is making his clients’ work lives easier. His main goal is to provide effective, efficient, and quality legal work with no surprises, prompt responses, regular updates, accurate budgeting, and sound strategy to help each client meet their internal obligations. Brokerage firms, investment advisers, and other financial institutions across the country trust him to defend them against claims asserted by their customers and employees. With a focus on maintaining solid and favorable working relationships with a number of financial services regulators, Josh is able to regularly and successfully represent his clients’ interests in investigations and enforcement actions. He also has substantial experience litigating and negotiating on behalf of lenders in a broad variety of matters, in general litigation before the state and federal courts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and in class action defense.

Josh is a leader within the greater firm platform as a Management Committee Member, and the Birmingham Office Managing Principal. He is also the Practice Area Leader of the firm’s Securities group.

Growing up in a blue-collar family in the sticks of west Alabama provided Josh with a firsthand understanding of the value of hard work. It also taught him the importance of knowing from where you came and giving back to those who need help. Along those lines and with his dad’s military service in mind, Josh has an active pro bono practice that currently focuses on veterans' issues, including volunteering with the ABA Military Pro Bono Project, Operation Stand-By, and the Veterans’ Claims Assistance Network. He has been active in leadership of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section for a number of years, including his current service as Co-Chair for the Young Lawyer Leadership Program.

Awards & Accolades

• Included on the list of the Best Lawyers in America^®, 2020-2025
• Selected to the list of the Mid-South Super Lawyers, Securities Litigation, 2015-2021
• Recognized on the Alabama Super Lawyers, “Rising Stars” List, Securities Litigation, 2011-2014
• Recognized on the Birmingham Business Journal's "Who's Who in Law" List, 2020, 2023, 2024

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Experience

• Successfully defended brokerage firm in Louisiana arbitration against $200,000 customer claim relating to alleged trading platform malfunction.
• Successfully defended brokerage firm and registered representative in Massachusetts arbitration against $478,000 customer claim relating to beneficiary dispute.
• Successfully defended registered representative in North Carolina arbitration against customer claim in excess of $840,000 relating to alleged diminished capacity in connection with beneficiary designation
• Successfully defended brokerage firm in North Carolina arbitration against claim in excess of $1.1 million relating to alleged failure to disclose fees
• Successfully defended brokerage firm in North Carolina arbitration against $700,000 claim relating to alleged failure to execute
• Successfully defended brokerage firm and registered representatives in Florida arbitration against $330,000 claim relating to investments in municipal bond funds
• Successfully defended brokerage firm and registered representatives in Florida arbitration against $1,000,000 claim relating to investments in preferred stock
• Successfully defended brokerage firm and registered representatives in series of cases pending in multiple jurisdictions, including Illinois and Massachusetts, against claims relating to a managed product
• Represented local business before U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama and on appeal to the Eleventh Circuit in purported class action relating to alleged violation of federal consumer protection laws, 564 F.3d 1301 (11th Circuit 2009)
• Represented publicly traded REIT in multiple federal and state court matters, including cases in which the courts enforced both the company’s contractual lien in its customer agreement and its limitation of liability provision, see, e.g., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 136056 (N.D. Ala. 2012)
• Represented brokerage firm in federal court in successful attempt to secure injunctive relief preventing the arbitration of a non-customer claim, 829 F. Supp. 2d 1141(N.D. Ala. 2011)
• Represented world’s largest retailer in successfully compelling arbitration of a customer claim and defense of same at arbitration, 963 So. 2d 76 (Ala. 2007)

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Professional Affiliations

• Member, Alabama State Bar Association
• Member, Birmingham Bar Association
• Member, The Mississippi Bar
• Member, American Bar Association

Get to know Josh

Josh prefers to talk, does not mind writing, and is excited to otherwise contribute to the legal profession more generally.  His favorite activities as Alabama Managing Principal include the big picture efforts to lead a great group of people in their individual and collective attempts to create satisfying legal practices, and the small, but important activities like occasionally getting to select the cake flavor for the monthly office-wide birthday celebration.

On a personal note, he is a big fan of hawks, Billy Joe Shaver, the constellation Orion, hushpuppies, pedal assist bikes, Archibald’s, children with a sense of humor, rivers, WWII carrier pigeon message capsules (despite his family’s steadfast refusal to buy him one for Christmas), and The Great Courses.