About Jeannie Bugg
Jeannie Bugg Walston has spent more than three decades practicing law in Alabama. She built her early credentials at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, completing her Bachelor of Science in Marketing in 1985 and later earning her Juris Doctor in 1992. Those academic years set the stage for a career focused largely on litigation tied to workplace injuries and employer liability.
She joined Starnes Davis Florie LLP early in her career and became an equity partner in 1992. At the firm she has worked on a steady stream of contested matters and appeals. Her practice has involved representing employers, insurers and self-insured entities in claims that require both trial work and appellate attention.
Walston is admitted to practice in Alabama, before the Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. Those admissions reflect a practice that has moved beyond the trial courthouse to higher forums on occasion. Her courtroom work and filings before appellate tribunals have been a regular part of the caseload she carries at the firm.
Professional involvement has been a constant feature of her career. She has been a member of the American Bar Association since 1993 and belongs to a number of state and local groups, including the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association and the Birmingham Bar Association. Her association with specialized organizations stretches back decades. She joined the Defense Research Institute’s litigation section in 1994 and has held membership in the National Council of Self-Insureds since 2010. She is listed among Best Lawyers in America as a selected lawyer, a recognition that has appeared on her record since 2010.
Within the Birmingham Bar Association she has taken on leadership roles in the Workers’ Compensation Section. Over several years she served as treasurer, secretary, vice president and then president of that Section from 2013 through 2017. She is also active in state-level workers’ compensation and self-insurer organizations and has been a member of the Alabama Bar Association’s workers’ compensation and litigation sections.
Colleagues describe her as steady in court and attentive to case detail. Her career reflects a long engagement with the legal issues surrounding workplace injuries in Alabama, combined with the memberships and leadership posts that come from working in that field. She currently handles workers’ compensation defense and related litigation in her practice.
