Elizabeth Carter

Ms. Carter handles all aspects of employment relations for employers across the southeast including business development and planning regarding employees, negotiation of key employment contracts, handbook development, internal investigations, employee training and ultimately litigation when necessary. The employment areas Ms. Carter handles on a regular basis include FLSA, FMLA, retaliation, Title VII (discrimination and harassment), ADEA, ADA, non-compete agreements, various constitutional claims with public employees and EEOC Charges of discrimination. She also handles commercial litigation, including various types of contract disputes and False Claims Act cases. 

Mrs. Carter is a member of the Montgomery County Bar Association, Alabama Defense
Lawyers Association, Alabama Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. She
is admitted to practice in the U.S. Southern, Middle and Northern District Courts for Alabama.

Practice Areas
Commercial & Complex Litigation
Education
Insurance Defense
Labor & Employment

Bar Admissions
ALABAMA
1994
U.S. CIRCUIT COURTS
Eleventh Circuit
U.S. DISTRICT COURTS
Northern District of Alabama
Middle District of Alabama
Southern District of Alabama

Education
1994
Cumberland School of Law, Samford University
Birmingham, Alabama, J.D.
Honors:
• Henry Upson Moot Court Board Member
• Trial Advocacy Board Member
1991
Troy State University
Troy, Alabama, B.S., summa cum laude

Associations
Alabama State Bar Association
Member
Montgomery County Bar Association
Member
Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
Member
American Trial Lawyers Association
Member, National Trial Team
American Journal of Trial Advocacy
Member
Alabama Trial Lawyers Association
Member
DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar
Member
Alabama Council of School Board Attorneys
Member
National School Board Association Council of School Attorneys
Member

Published Work
Comparative Negligence As a Defense for Strict Liability, The American Journal of Trial
Advocacy, Vol. 17:3 (1993)