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AV Peer Review Rated Ms. Gidiere's civil litigation practice is concentrated in complex business and commercial litigation, securities arbitration and litigation, and closely-held shareholder disputes and litigation. Ms. Gidiere has both prosecuted and defended claims upon behalf of corporate clients arising out of uninsured business risks, including contractual disputes and business torts. She has represented clients during external SEC investigations and civil litigation. Her representation has been nationwide, but is primarily regional within the Southeast. The largest concentration of her work over the past several years has been representing high net worth investors, including corporate investors, and investment advisors in arbitration and litigation relating to wide-scale fraud by brokerage houses and management firms arising out of the use of structured financial products. Before Leitman, Siegal, Payne & Campbell After graduating from law school, Ms. Gidiere clerked for the Honorable Ed Carnes, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and thereafter, practiced for two years as a trial attorney in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, in Washington, D.C. Ms. Gidiere began practicing with Andrew Campbell at Campbell Waller in 1999. Ms. Gidiere is a native of Florence and a 1993 honors graduate of Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received a Citation for Outstanding Academic Achievement. In 1996, she graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law, where she received the National Association of Women Lawyers' Most Outstanding Student Award. Articles: "What Is Fair Value Under Alabama's Dissenting Shareholder Statute," The Alabama Lawyer, Vol. 62, No. 2 (May 2001); |
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