Bainbridge, Mims,
Rogers & Smith, LLP

The Luckie Building
Suite 415
600 Luckie Drive
Birmingham, Alabama 35223
P.O. Box 530886 (35253)

Tel: (205) 879-1100
Fax: (205) 879-4300
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"A law firm that quietly and competently serves its clients is a prized commodity in today’s increasingly noisy and complex legal world. Bainbridge, Mims, Rogers & Smith, LLP is such a firm. Established, respected, and able to call upon years of experience and expertise, it is frequently viewed as a lawyers’ law firm—where the practice of law is a measured and carefully crafted response to the legal needs of its clients.

Since it was founded in 1942 by Frank Bainbridge and Walter L. Mims, the firm has served a central and integral role in the Birmingham Bar. Frank Bainbridge (1895-1980) served as President of the Birmingham Bar Association in 1934. Walter L. Mims served as its President in 1961, and Frank M. Bainbridge (son of the founder), served in that capacity in 1977. [Subsequent to the publication of Mrs. Rumore’s book, another firm member has served as a President of the Birmingham Bar—Bruce F. Rogers in 2002.]

From its inception, Bainbridge, Mims has maintained a broad and varied civil practice. In recent years, the firm has adapted to the ever-broadening and complex needs of its clients, and consistently strives to provide the best possible legal counsel. It is a small firm with a sophisticated and diverse practice. It provides an extensive range of legal services for its client base of individuals and small and large businesses located both in state and out of state. The firm also receives a significant amount of referral business and prides itself on maintaining good relations with other law firms in the Birmingham area.

Today, the firm’s primary areas of expertise include civil litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants in complex business matters such as business torts, shareholder actions, environmental suits, class actions, insurance coverage, fraud litigation, product liability as well as probate and estate issues. The firm’s practice involves it frequently at both the trial and appellate levels, in both state and federal courts. The firm also remains involved in a general practice representing small businesses and individuals.

Together, [the Firm’s] attorneys strive to maintain and build upon the highly respected practice and traditions—reaching back to World War II—as established by the firm's founding members, Frank Bainbridge and Walter L. Mims."

-Excerpt from Pat Boyd Rumore’s Lawyers in a New South City: A History of the Legal Profession in Birmingham, p. 192 (Association Publishing Co., 2000).