About Leigh King
Leigh King Forstman built a practice that bridges courtroom work and community life. She is a lawyer who has spent decades active in trial circles and civic organizations. Her career has threaded together regional court experience and local leadership roles.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Auburn University in 1987 and completed her Juris Doctor at the University of Alabama School of Law in 1990. Those years shaped her approach to litigation and professional engagement. The timeline from law school to the present shows continued involvement in the legal community across two states and multiple federal courts.
Ms. Forstman is admitted to practice in Alabama and Tennessee and holds admissions to several federal benches, including the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Middle Districts of Alabama, and the 11th Circuit. She is also admitted to the Supreme Court of Alabama. Those credentials have supported a practice that regularly operates in both state and federal forums.
In 2017 she founded King Forstman Law LLC and serves as the firm’s owner. The decision to start a firm reflected years of work in trial practice and leadership in bar organizations. She has been active on the Executive Committee of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association and was the founding chair of the Women Trial Lawyers Caucus of that association. Her memberships extend to the American Bar Association, the Alabama State Bar, the Tennessee Bar Association and national trial organizations. She is a fellow of the Roscoe Pound Institute and appears in professional directories that document lawyers’ careers.
Her civic and church involvement runs parallel to her legal work. She is founder and president of the Forstman Foundation and sits on the board of Pathways. At Canterbury United Methodist Church she serves as a trustee, participates in the choir, and has held roles on the worship committee and administrative board. She has also taken part in community fundraisers, including performances for a Birmingham Bar Association cabaret benefiting Children’s Hospital.
Colleagues and peers tend to know her for steady participation in bar activities and for taking on organizational roles that sustain trial practice networks. She leads King Forstman Law LLC and handles matters in the state and federal courts to which she is admitted, maintaining an active practice focused on litigation in those forums.
