About Leroy Maxwell
Leroy Maxwell Jr. is an attorney admitted to practice in Alabama and Missouri. He brings several years of appellate experience to his work and has maintained a steady presence in both public-interest and private-practice settings.
He began his legal education at Purdue University, where he earned a B.A. He returned to Valparaiso University for graduate study, completing an M.S., and later earned his J.D. from Valparaiso University School of Law. Those academic years laid a foundation in legal research and writing that has shaped much of his subsequent work.
Maxwell’s early professional experience included appellate work at the Equal Justice Initiative in 2011. That role placed him in an environment focused on complex post-conviction and appellate matters. He handled legal research, brief drafting and the kinds of record review that appellate practice demands.
In 2013 he moved to the Revill Law Office as an appellate lawyer. There he continued to handle appeals, refining written advocacy and oral argument preparation. The position bridged his earlier public-interest work and roles in private practice and exposed him to cases from a range of civil and criminal backgrounds.
By 2015 he was working as a lawyer at Maxwell Tillman. That experience added courtroom and client-facing responsibilities to his appellate background. Over time he has worked on briefs, motions and appellate pleadings while also engaging with trial counsel on strategy and preservation of issues for appeal.
Outside the office he participates in professional organizations that reflect both trial and appellate interests. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Association for Justice. He is listed with the National Top 100 Black Lawyers and is active in the Magic City Bar Association. Super Lawyers counts him among its current members, and he volunteers with the Alabama State Bar Volunteer Lawyers Program.
Those experiences have led to a practice built around post-trial and appellate work, together with civil litigation matters that require careful record development and written advocacy. He practices in Alabama and Missouri and handles appellate advocacy and related litigation matters in those jurisdictions.
