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Office Location

The Porter Law Group, P.C. has offices conveniently located in the historic Rossen Building on the north side of the Jackson County Courthouse Square in Scottsboro, Alabama.We serve local clients in the
northeastern corner of Alabama, including Scottsboro, Fort Payne, Guntersville and Huntsville, as well as in Jackson, Madison, DeKalb and Marshall counties. We are also licensed in Tennessee and serve Chattanooga, and Winchester, as well as Warren, Hamilton and Marion counties. Drew Porter additionally serves clients in Hawaii and Guam. 

Below: John Porter with wife, Jan, and children, John, IV, Andrew and Claire on the steps of the United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C., 1994.

Below: John Porter with family, Scottsboro, 2019.

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Admitted

  • Alabama, 1978
  • U.S. District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Alabama, 1979
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1979
  • U.S. Supreme Court, 1993
  • Tennessee, 1996

Education

  • Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., 1978
  • University of Alabama, B.S., 1975

Military Service

  • Major, U.S. Air Force Reserve, Retired ( Intelligence)

Areas of Practice

  • Civil Practice
  • Civil Appeals
  • Business and Corporate Law
    • Business Formation
    • Business Dissolution
    • Breach of Contract
    • Collections
    • Workers' Compensation Defense
  • Insurance Defense
  • Arbitration
  • Estate Planning
    • Wills
    • Trusts
    • Special Needs Trust
    • Power of Attorney
    • Advanced Health Care Directive
    • Wealth Transfer
    • Family Business Transfer
  • Elder Law
    • Guardianship
    • Conservatorship
    • Neglect
    • Abuse
    • Financial Abuse
  • Probate and Probate Litigation
  • Personal Injury
    • Wrongful Death
    • Accidents
    • Faulty Products
  • Residential Real Estate
    • Title Search
    • Closings
    • Deeds
    • 1031 Exchange
    • Conservation Easement
  • Commercial Real Estate
    • Title Search
    • Closings
    • Deeds
    • Timber Sale or Purchase
    • 1031 Exchange
    • Conservation Easement
  • Real Estate Litigation
    • Land Line Disputes
    • Sale for Division
  • Mediation
  • Family Law
    • Divorce and High Asset Divorce
    • Custody and Child Support
    • Alimony
    • Property Division
    • Juvenile Dependency
  • Utility Law
  • School Law
  • Health Care Law
  • Fire Law
  • Local Government Law

Associations and Memberships

  • Rotary International, Scottsboro, Alabama Chapter
    • President, 1989-90
    • Paul Harris Fellow, 1989
  • Alabama State Bar Association
  • Tennessee State Bar Association
  • Jackson County Bar Association
  • Alabama Counsel of School Board Attorneys
    • President, 2016-17
  • Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
  • Defense Research Institute
  • International Association of Defense Counsel

Representative Cases

Supreme Court of the United States

Supreme Court of Alabama

  • K-Mart Corp., Inc. v Pendergrass 494 So.2d 600  (June, 1986)
  • Lee v. Shrader 502 So. 2d 741  (January, 1987)
  • Best Plant Food Products v. Cagle 510 So.2d 229  (June, 1987)
  • McCrary v. Butler 540 So.2d 736 (February, 1989)
  • Wilson v. Dukona, Corp., N.V. 547 So.2d 70  (April,1989)
  • Ford New Holland,Inc. v. Proctor-Russell Tractor Co. Inc. 630 So.2d 395  (October, 1993)
  • Primm v. Primm 621 So.2d 1298  (June, 1993)
  • Cherokee Electric Co-op v. Cochran 706 So.2d 1188  (December, 1997)

Alabama Court of Civil Appeals

  • Hardeman v. Mayfield 429 So.2d 1097  (April, 1983)
  • Moore v. Casey 439 So.2d 164  (September, 1983)
  • Barrington Corp. v. Patrick Lumber Co., Inc. 447 So.2d 785 ( February, 1984)
  • Culpepper v. Culpepper 522 So.2d 303  (March, 1988)
  • Foster v. Whitley 564 So.2d 990 ( May, 1990)
  • Mitchell v. Jackson County Board of Education 582 So.2d 1128 ( May, 1991)
  • Pittman v. Pittman 598 So.2d 993  (April, 1992)
  • Coffman v. Coffman 603 So.2d 1071  (August, 1992)
  • Hines v. Cunningham 622 So.2d 395 ( March, 1993)
  • AL State Tenure Commission v. Jackson County Board of Education 698 So.2d 775 (October, 1996)
  • Blankenship v. Blankenship 963 So.2d 112  (February, 2007)
  • Hicks v. Jackson County Commission 990 So.2d 904  (March, 2008)
  • Eustace v. Browning 30 So.3d 445  (July, 2009)
  • Brown v. Brown 90 So.3d 716  (September, 2011)

Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

  • Jones v. State 439 So.2d 776  (July, 1983)
  • State v. Taylor 681 So.2d 278  (February, 2007)

Biography

  • Registered Court Mediator
  • Law Clerk to Presiding Judge, 23rd Judicial Circuit, Alabama, 1978-1979