Experts Directory

Kristy McAlister Brown

Kristy McAlister Brown is co-chair of Alston & Bird's Litigation & Trial Practice Group and leads Alston & Bird's Privacy and Cybersecurity Litigation Team. Kristy focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on class action and privacy litigation. She has defended putative class actions across the country and has a strong track record of defeating class certification—both at the trial and appellate levels. Kristy is an experienced privacy litigator. She has defended class actions [...]

Elliot H. Scherker

Elliot Scherker has 40-plus years of experience as an appellate lawyer and has handled more than 2,000 appeals in state and federal courts. Elliot brings a practical and client-centered approach to his work. He is Co-Chair of the firm's National Appellate Practice. Representative Matters  Represented Lorillard Tobacco Company on appeal from $145 billion judgment against the five major American tobacco companies, the largest damage award in American legal history; presented oral argument in both the [...]

Steven Brannock

Steve Brannock is a founder and managing shareholder of the firm. Steve has been an appellate specialist for nearly his entire legal career. Board certified in appellate practice, he has handled appellate matters in all five Florida District Courts of Appeal, the Florida Supreme Court, six federal circuit courts of appeal, and the United States Supreme Court. Before founding Brannock Humphries & Berman, Steve spent 28 years with Holland & Knight LLP, where he supervised [...]