Evidence Update: Selected Recent Alabama and Tennessee Cases

Join us for a discussion of selected recent opinions from Alabama and Tennessee state appellate courts addressing evidence issues.

About Our Speakers

Hon. Scott Donaldson

Mediator, Arbitrator, Trial and Appellate Counsel & Private Judge

Scott Donaldson, LLC

Scott Donaldson has 37 years of trial and appellate legal practice and judicial experience. He has been an attorney or trial judge in over 160 jury trials and in hundreds of bench trials.  He was a Judge on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals from 2013 until 2021 and a circuit judge from 2003-2013.  Donaldson is a faculty member of the National Judicial College and has taught fifteen four-day evidence courses to hundreds of trial judges across the country, and taught evidence courses for 11 state judicial associations, the ABA Tort, Trial & Insurance Practice Section, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and for the judges of the United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board.  He teaches evidence and trial skills courses for the Alabama Circuit, District, and Probate Judges Associations and has taught Trial Advocacy at the University of Alabama School of Law each semester since 2006. He is an instructor for a Domestic Relations/Civil mediator training course.