Bradley Arant Boult Cummings Partners Margaret Oertling Cupples, Angela Holt and Patricia Head Moskal Named Among Top 250 Women in Litigation

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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that partners Margaret Oertling Cupples, Angela Holt and Patricia Head Moskal are listed in the inaugural edition of the Top 250 Women in Litigation. Published by Legal Media Group, a division of British financial publisher Euromoney Institutional Investor, the guide honors female litigators in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia for their achievements as trial lawyers.

The top 250 female litigators were chosen from among leading trial lawyers in their respective states according to the 2012 edition of the peer-reviewed publication Benchmark Litigation, also published by Euromoney Legal Media Group.

“We congratulate Margaret, Angela and Patricia on this well-deserved honor that singles them out as among the most accomplished women trial lawyers in the nation,” said firm Chairman Beau Grenier. “Their skills and passion as litigators make them great champions for our clients as well as outstanding role models for other women attorneys at our firm and in the profession as a whole.”

Cupples focuses her practice on civil appeals and commercial litigation, including asbestos, benzene and silica mass-tort and products liability cases, as well as insurance sales practices, consumer finance, and general commercial litigation. Managing partner of the firm’s Jackson, Miss., office, Cupples earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from Washington & Lee University School of Law. She also has a B.A., magna cum laude, from Trinity University.

A registered patent attorney who works out of the firm’s Huntsville, Ala., office, Holt centers her practice on intellectual property matters, as well as commercial and business and technology issues. Her cases have involved patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, government contracting disputes including bid protests, domain‐name disputes, breach of contract, employee disputes, and restrictive covenants. She earned her J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Alabama School of Law and also has a B.S., with honors, from Auburn University.

Moskal has more than 25 years of experience handling business and commercial litigation, with a focus on state and local tax litigation, appellate litigation, and government contracts and bid protests. She also has significant experience with class actions, contracts and business disputes, insurance litigation, real estate litigation, and municipal law matters. She has a J.D., with highest honors, from the University of Tennessee College of Law and a B.A. from Indiana University. Moskal is based in the firm’s Nashville, Tenn., office.