About Wayne Alan Duke
Wayne Alan Duke Jr combines engineering training and legal education in a career that spans construction sites and courtrooms. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2002. He returned to school and received his Juris Doctor from Birmingham School of Law in 2007.
His early professional years were spent in the construction industry. After graduating from UAB he worked as a project manager for Bartlett Contracting Co., Inc., starting in 2002. That hands-on role put him on job sites and involved him in scheduling, subcontractor coordination and project oversight. He later served as vice president of Civil Contractors LLC in 2008, a position that broadened his operational and managerial experience in the field.
Duke moved into legal practice shortly after completing law school. His first recorded legal role was as a lawyer at Hamer Law Group, LLC in 2011. The work there marked the beginning of a steady course through private practice, where he handled matters that drew on his prior construction experience as well as traditional legal work.
In 2015 he joined Belt & Bruner, P.C. as a lawyer. That stint added to his familiarity with firm-based practice and expanded his experience in client representation and case management. He returned to Hamer Law Group, LLC in 2019 for another period of practice, and then transitioned to an of counsel role in 2021 at Hand Arendall Harrison Sale LLC.
At Hand Arendall Harrison Sale LLC he holds the title of of counsel. The position reflects a continuation of his legal career within an established firm environment. He is admitted to practice in Alabama and maintains his professional work in that jurisdiction.
Several themes run through Duke’s résumé: an early grounding in civil engineering, practical construction management experience and more than a decade of legal practice. Those elements combine to shape the kinds of matters he brings to clients. He is known to apply technical understanding of construction projects to legal questions and disputes that arise from them.
He lives and practices in Alabama and remains associated with Hand Arendall Harrison Sale LLC. His current practice centers on legal matters that intersect with engineering and construction, drawing on both his technical background and his legal training.
