Entries by Dottie Perry

Overview of Current Contract Law in Alabama

I get a few calls a week from individuals and businesses with contract disputes.  I am knee-deep in contract law every day, so I often lose sight of the fact that the law of contracts is not “walking around knowledge.”    I thought it may be useful to create a brief overview of Alabama contract law, generally, for […]

We Are a Small Business for Small Businesses

There are “Practice Area” descriptions on this website, but there may be something that isn’t made clear by the headings in the “Practice Area” drop-down menu: Burns, Cunningham & Mackey represents small businesses.  We are a small shop, six attorneys and a small support staff, so we understand first-hand the nature and difficulties of the small business world. Disputes regularly arise in conducting business, in any […]

Olympic Games and Raising Children: Daily Feats of Inhuman Skill

Though success at the Olympics is more easily measured than success in parenting, the two goals stem from the same ideals. It is impossible to miss the direction network programming and retail marketing usually point us in:  spend more, care less. This message is not lost on younger audiences.  The shift in national focus during the Olympic Games, however, is infectious.  Untold […]

Women Lawyers of the Mobile Bar Association

The annual networking event and fundraiser of the Women Lawyers section of the Mobile Bar Association is on October 11 this year.  Regions Bank will host the event in their Pharr Room on the 29th floor of the RSA Tower from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Mobile’s only shelter for single, homeless women, McKemie Place, is the beneficiary […]