WJR&B | Kimberly R. West

P.O. Box 530910
Birmingham, Alabama 35253

Phone: (205) 870-0555
E-mail: kw@wallacejordan.com
Fax: (205) 871-7534

Kim West, a native of Huntsville, Alabama, was born in 1957. She attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1975, and graduated from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. After teaching for a year in the Alabama public school system, she attended law school at the University of Alabama, where she received her law degree in 1983. While at the University of Alabama, Ms. West served on the editorial board of the Alabama Law Review, received serveral book awards, and graduated third in her class.

After graduation, Ms. West served one year as a law clerk to The Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr., United States Circuit Court Judge for the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. From 1984 to 1986, she practiced general civil and criminal law as an associate with the Birmingham law firm of Thomas, Taliaferro, Foreman, Burr & Murray and with Parker & Dawson. In 1986, she left Parker & Dawson and was engaged in a general solo practice, with an emphasis on federal and state appellate litigation. She also served as a Medicare Hearing Officer. She formed the partnership of Scofield, West & French in 1991, where she remained before joining Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C. in October 1997. Ms. West practices primarily in the areas of ERISA mass tort litigation, federal appellate litigation, and constitutional law.

She currently serves as lead counsel to several Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in national mass-tort litigation, including breast implant, Factor VIII, pedicle screw, Fen-Phen, and Rezulin. Ms. West is admitted to practice in all Alabama state courts, the federal district courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Alabama, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of the Alabama State Bar and the Birmingham Bar Association.