Chris Estes | Mobile Personal Injury Lawyer

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About Chris

Former Insurance Defense Lawyer now devoted to representing individuals, families and small businesses throughout Alabama and Mississippi who have been injured, harmed or damaged in any way.

For over 16 years, Chris Estes defended the insurance industry and big corporations and knows first-hand how they deny claims when individuals and their families have been injured, damaged and even wrongfully killed. Chris Estes founded the Estes Law Firm with one simple and straightforward purpose –  to provide individuals and their families with the same representation and resources as the corporations and insurance companies demand from the big defense law firms they retain.  

Chris Estes also serves as a Temporary Judge (on a part time basis when needed by the Court) for the Probate Court of Mobile County, and presided on over 100 cases in Mobile County as a Judge in 2018.

Chris Estes and his team at The Estes Law Firm are dedicated to helping real people and their families with cases involving wrongful death, serious personal injury, dangerous drugs, defective medical devices, car and big truck accidents, nursing home negligence, medical malpractice and class actions.
 
If you have suffered a personal injury, damages or the death of a loved one, let Chris and his team at Estes Law Firm go to work for you. We offer a free initial consultation and work on a contingency fee basis – which means you owe us nothing unless we can collect for you.

Bar Requirement:  No representation is made that the quality of legal services to be performed is greater than the quality of legal services performed by other lawyers.

We offer a FREE initial consultation and handle cases on a contingency fee basis, which means there is NO FEE unless we collect money for you.

Experience

Managing Partner

Estes Law Firm, LLC

2014 - Present

Mobile, AL

Managing Attorney - General Liability Division

Vernis & Bowling, LLC

2012 - 2014

Mobile, AL and Gulfport, MS

Managing Partner (Alabama)

Wilkins Tipton, LLC

2010 - 2012

Mobile, AL

Partner

Alford, Clausen & McDonald, LLC

2002 - 2010

Mobile, AL

Associate

Armbrecht Jackson, LLC

1998 - 2002

Mobile, AL

Admission

Verified Mississippi

2000

Verified Alabama

1998

Education

University of Fribourg School of Law

Summer 1996 (Law)

1996

Spring Hill College

Bachelors, cum laude (Political Science)

1995

Recognitions & Achievements

Associations
  • Alabama State Bar Association | Member
  • Mississippi State Bar Association | Member
Honors / Awards
  • George P. Taylor Outstanding Advocacy Award | UA School of Law

Notable Work

Cases

Chris Estes is licensed to practice before federal and state courts throughout Alabama and Mississippi. Over the last twenty years, Chris has handled complex litigation as well as straightforward negligence claims. Significant cases:

* Boatwright v. Carney Realty, Inc., 2009 WL 3615048 (S.D. Ala. 2009); * Cleveland v.Ark-La-Tex, 2007 WL 2460753 (S.D. Ala. 2007); * Bender Shipbuilding & Repair v. Walley, 879 So. 2d 568 (Ala. Civ. App. 2002), rev’d, 879 So. 2d 577 (Ala. 2003), on remand 879 So. 2d 586 (Ala. Civ. App. 2003); * Dunnam v. Ovbiagele, 814 So. 2d 232 (Ala. 2001); * Ex parte Kimberly Clarke, 779 2d 178 (Ala. 2000).

Publications

SHC Journal of Global Affairs