Family Law

• Divorce
  Mr. Gregory’s law practice has included arbitration and mediation since 1995. He has served as arbitrator and mediator in a wide range of securities, consumer, employment, family law and divorce, and commercial disputes. He is a member of the roster of mediators and arbitrators for the Financial Regulatory Authority (formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers), as well as the Commercial and Consumer Panels for the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Gregory has been appointed to over one hundred arbitration panels, serving as chair in approximately half of those. He has participated as faculty and judge at law school-sponsored law student mediation competitions and has conducted training in the form of webinars for the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution. He has also served as a court-appointed appellate mediator for the Alabama Supreme Court. He was appointed to the Arbitration and Mediation pools of the Court of Arbitration for Art in The Hague in January 2020.
• Child Custody and Visitation
  Mediators and parties don’t always have to follow the same approach or the same structure. Some disputes may lend themselves to multiple short mediation sessions in which the parties and mediators focus on just one aspect of the dispute, in the manner of collaborative law. This approach may be particularly useful for legal matters which include discrete issues. Divorce mediation is one example, as these disputes often include issues such as real estate division, division of financial assets and retirement assets, alimony, and and child custody and visitation.
• Spousal Support

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  Steven Gregory began his career as a lawyer and as a litigator at a small Birmingham, Alabama, law firm which concentrated on securities litigation and representing public corporations in securities matters. Later he represented parties in antitrust, consumer finance, and employment and criminal matters. Mr. Gregory has also represented both claimants and respondents in matters before the Financial Regulatory Authority and the American Arbitration Association.
• Fraud
  In his law practice, Mr. Gregory has represented customers, registered representatives, and broker-dealers in disputes over churning, suitability, securities fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and failure to supervise claims. He has also represented registered representatives and brokerage firms in intra-industry disputes including promissory note cases, raiding cases, and statutory employment cases such as race and gender discrimination cases. As a FINRA panelist since 1995, he has served as a panel member in over one hundred securities arbitration matters, chairing at least half of those panels.

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  Steven Gregory is an attorney, mediator and arbitrator focused on resolving personal and business disputes through mediation, arbitration, and litigation. Mr. Gregory is a frequent presenter on alternative dispute resolution topics to fellow members of the bar.
• Antitrust

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  This article from the New York Times (“Prince Needed a Will, But Maybe You Don’t”) on the failure of Prince to create an estate plan contains good general advice on wills and estate planning (though the correct term for a living will is “advance directive,” not “advanced directive.”). The form for a living will in Alabama is incorporated into the statute at Code of Alabama 22-8A-4.
• Wills

Finance Law

• Debt Collection
  Court for the Northern District of Alabama, CASE NO. CV02- HGD-0446-W. Settled. Class action under Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Truth in Lending Act on behalf of persons who entered into debt consolidation agreements with defendant wherein the agreements violated the Truth-in-Lending Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1601 et seq., and Regulation Z, 12 C.F.R. 226 et seq., by failing to correctly disclose amount financed, failing to itemize amount financed, failing to correctly disclose finance charge, and/or failing to disclose APR.