Stephen K. Pudner is a member of the Firm's Financial Institutions Litigation and Construction Law Groups and concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation, bankruptcy and creditors' rights litigation and construction law. He has extensive experience litigating complex, multi-party commercial disputes, wrongful foreclosure lawsuits, contractual disputes, complex real property litigation, will and trust disputes, complex large-scale construction cases and tort claims, including nursing home and product liability litigation.
Mr. Pudner has extensive international experience and is highly proficient in written and spoken Spanish. Mr. Pudner also has been confirmed as a LEED AP by the U.S. Green Building Council. Prior to finishing law school, Mr. Pudner clerked for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of International Affairs, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Attorney General of Virginia.
- Confirmed by the U.S. Green Building Council as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP)
- Chairman – Young Professional Group of the Birmingham International Center
- Member – Birmingham Bar Association
- Member – American Bar Association Construction Forum
- Member – 2012 Birmingham Multiple Sclerosis Leadership Class
- Author – "The Future Of Green Skyscrapers," Environmental and Real Estate Law360 (April 23, 2012)
- Co-author – "Executed Arbitration Agreement Unenforceable for Alabama Wrongful Death Claims," Making a Difference, Baker Donelson Long Term Care Newsletter (April 3, 2012)
- Moderator – "The Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act," Birmingham International Center's panel discussion of Alabama's new immigration law (July 2011)
- Author – "Moving Forward From Dubai Ports World – The Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007," 59 Alabama Law Review 1277 (2008)
- Alabama, 2008
- District of Columbia, 2011
- U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
- University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 2008, cum laude
- Senior Editor – Alabama Law Review
- Georgetown University Law Center, Visiting Law Student, Spring 2008
- University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Summer 2006
- University of Virginia, B.A., Economics, 2003
- University of Valencia, Spain, Fall 2002