Leigh Anne Hodge was a partner at Bradley before retiring. She represented clients in the healthcare industry in regional and national engagements. As practice group leader for Bradley’s Litigation team, she regularly represented and counseled clients in the healthcare industry in product liability litigation, medical malpractice litigation, peer review and staff privileges matters, administrative hearings before licensure boards, ERISA litigation, Medicare Advantage plan litigation, managed care litigation, insurance disputes, and insurance fraud cases. She tried cases in federal and state courts and had experience in arbitration venues. Most recently, she worked with a client and other national defense counsel to coordinate and manage a mass-tort product liability litigation that included over 12,000 cases nationwide. As in other mass-tort litigations, the primary challenge was to organize thousands of individual claims in a manageable number of venues to achieve orderly, efficient, and economical administration of similar claims.

Leigh Anne regularly represented healthcare providers in disputes involving breach of contract, fraud, and misappropriation of trade secrets. She also represented clients in disputes arising out of changes in ownership of closely held businesses.

Leigh Anne was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Product Liability Litigation Defense, Healthcare Law, ERISA Litigation, Employee Benefits, and Insurance Law, as well as Benchmark Litigation in its Alabama litigation section. She was also listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers for Personal Injury-Products: Defense.

Leigh Anne served as a law clerk to the Hon. Edward S. Smith, Senior Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Before attending law school, Leigh Anne was a registered nurse for eight years and had experience in both hospital and private clinic settings.

Bar Admissions

• Alabama, 1992
• Tennessee, 2010
• California, 2016

Education

• Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, J.D., 1992, summa cum laude
• University of Alabama at Birmingham, B.S.N., 1981, with honors