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Greater Diversity? Balch Adds Six All-White Attorneys in Birmingham
So how did Balch & Bingham do to “achieve greater diversity” on Friday? Hire six all-white attorneys in Birmingham. What a joke. Balch’s Managing Partner Stan Blanton appears to have fed the public 100% organic crap. The public relations fluff regurgitated by Blanton after George Floyd’s death appears to have been disingenuous and dishonest. Blanton, stated in June, “We condemn injustice, oppression and brutality because of the color of an individual’s skin. Recent tragedies have emphasized the unacceptable racial inequalities that remain in our society. There is much more to be done to achieve greater diversity within the Balch family…
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Newsome Returns on Cane; Is Balch’s Vow Coming True?
The recovery of Burt Newsome has been truly amazing. Last week, he set aside a walker and is finally using a cane. His shattered leg and other injuries are healing well. Last week, Newsome even appeared in person at the Jefferson County Courthouse, and on Saturday, he went to his son’s soccer match. Every single parent at the soccer match knew what happened to Newsome: he was nearly killed in what many believe could have been an attempt to silence him for good. The word is out, penetrating all four corners of Alabama and beyond, and the biggest loser appears…
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Who on Balch’s Executive Committee knew about the Bribery Scheme?
[This post originally was published three years ago on October 17, 2017. Now a list of the top partners at Balch & Bingham who were alllegedly involved in the scheme has been compiled. Ex-Drummond executive David Roberson told The Washington Post that at least 20 other lawyers at Balch were involved besides convicted felon and ex-Balch partner Joel I. Gilbert. As the Roberson civil case makes its way through the appeals process, the eventual video depositions should make Balch, Drummond, and Alabama Power perspire profusely.] “Excitement comes from knowing what to expect,” screams the Balch & Bingham web site. Not…
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Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Pitiful: Desecrating a Memorial for the Dead in North Birmingham
Beyond the institutional racism that allegedly drove Balch & Bingham paid goons and stooges to target poor African-American families in North Birmingham, the mere mention about the continued toxicity and pollution in the community brings absolute, knee-jerk denials from powerful entities inside and outside the community. Screaming “government overreach” or hollering “we are complying with state regulations” does not work when people are dying and getting sick in a known contaminated area. On Saturday, October 3, environmental groups GASP and PANIC set up a small memorial to remember North Birmingham residents in Harriman Park, Fairmont, and Collegeville who have died…
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Tossed Aside! Mississippi Governor Doesn’t Back Balch Partner
Lucien Smith, a long time Balch & Bingham partner, was replaced as Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party last week. Mississippi Today reports: Lucien Smith on Monday announced he’s stepping down as Mississippi Republican Party chairman, with Gov. Tate Reeves backing Coast businessman Frank Bordeaux to replace him. Numerous Republican sources in July told Mississippi Today that Reeves, as new de facto head of the party in his first term as governor, wanted new leadership. And what polite excuse did spin doctors say was the reason Lucien was tossed aside? It’s partly because Smith is an attorney at a major law…
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Former Georgia Attorney General Dumps Balch; Exodus of the Good Begins
Former Georgia Attorney General Mike Bowers has quit embattled law firm Balch & Bingham. Law.com is reporting he has jumped to Johnson Marlowe. Two years ago, we wrote about the Dean of Balch’s Atlanta office, writing: We know about some of the great and honorable partners at Balch & Bingham who truly have been hurt by the alleged unsavory, racist, and criminal conduct by a few bad apples at the firm. In Atlanta, a controversy has exploded over the high legal fees paid to a law firm to investigate a first-class junket to South Africa. And who offered the most ethical, most honorable, most insightful…
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Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Secret Star Chamber, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Kings at Balch Lose Prestige Over Newsome Conspiracy Case
[This post originally appeared two years ago on September 26, 2018. With a recently orchestrated campaign that has backfired horrendously, the dumb-as-rocks terrorization of the wrong family, and the brain amputation of a once-respected journalist, Balch & Bingham defenders, boosters, and buffoons appear to have cost the firm more than prestige. With Burt Newsome almost killed and criminal acts on the rise, let us not be surprised when these same defenders, boosters, and buffoons sit around at a conference table wondering aloud, filled with rage, “Where have all of Balch’s clients and partners gone?”] We are still in disbelief that…
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Recovery, Ridicule, and RICO
Burt Newsome has been discharged from the hospital and is making a steady recovery. The Iron Man has even gone to his office, defying those who may have hoped he was permanently silenced or crippled. Leading activists, business leaders, lawyers, and judicial branch employees in Alabama are stunned and in disbelief that Burt Newsome was almost killed. Newsome has received a flurry of support and “get well” messages from colleagues and lawyers, but not a peep, not a squeak from Balch or their henchmen. Was Newsome a victim once again? Many think so. The never-ending, fight-to-the-death Balch & Bingham story…
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Drummond, Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, RICO, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Norfolk Southern, Balch, and the Head-On Crash Into Burt Newsome
The accident report of the mysterious car wreck that almost took the life of Iron Man Burt Newsome appears to confirm that the driver of an SUV, who made a left turn in front of Newsome instead of yielding to oncoming traffic, apparently made an abrupt right turn shortly thereafter, hitting Newsome head-on. The photo above appears to confirm the fact, raising the question: Was Iron Man Newsome an alleged victim of a possible crime? In Alabama, they say there are no such things as coincidences. In 2018, we uncovered that the police officer who participated in the alleged staged…
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Drummond, Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
From Hospital Bed, Iron Man Newsome Vows “Pursuit of Justice”
Eight years ago, Burt Newsome, an innocent lawyer minding his own business who had no issues with Balch & Bingham, was allegedly targeted, falsely arrested and defamed by the once-prestigious, silk-stocking law firm in an alleged attempt to steal his business servicing banks. His unwavering tenacity to pursue justice against the odds, against the bullies at Balch has made him a hero in the legal community who have had enough of the consistent abuse of the judicial and political system by Balch stooges. On Thursday, Newsome was almost killed in a mysterious car accident, sending the gravely injured attorney to…
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Breaking News: Newsome Gravely Injured; FBI Probe Demanded
Burt Newsome, one of the leading banking lawyers in Alabama who has successfully challenged and humiliated Balch & Bingham after he allegedly was targeted, falsely arrested, and defamed by a conspiracy allegedly spearheaded by a Balch & Bingham partner, was gravely injured in a mysterious auto accident Thursday afternoon. The incident comes hours after Legal Schnauzer published an article linking Balch to a Wallace-era highway scandal that involved the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Robert Shelton. The late Schuyler A. Baker, Sr. was at one time a top attorney at Balch & Bingham, and also a staunch segregationist…
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Abomination! Balch Partner and BBVA “Founding Father” was a Staunch Segregationist
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”–Governor George Wallace Atoning for the sins of their founding fathers, BBVA is now under enormous pressure to cut ties with the embattled and alleged racist law firm Balch & Bingham. Schuyler A. Baker, Sr. (pictured above inside the red circle) was a top partner at Balch when it was called Balch, Bingham, Baker, Hawthorne, Williams & Ward. Baker was a founding father of the predecessor of BBVA Bank, called Central Bank and Trust, when the financial institution was founded on March 2, 1964. Baker was also a close personal friend, campaign manager, and staunch…
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Terminate Balch Now! Civil Rights Leader Rips BBVA for “Desecrating the Memory of George Floyd”
Civil Rights leader Ernesto Pichardo dispatched a scathing letter to Javier Rodriguez Soler, President and CEO of BBVA USA, for not terminating the alleged racist law firm Balch & Bingham. “Over two months ago we called on you to immediately terminate alleged racist law firm Balch & Bingham as BBVA’s outside lawyers. You have done nothing,” Pichardo wrote. In 1993, Pichardo won a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision for religious freedom and Civil Rights after his Afro-Caribbean faith came under attack due to blatant intolerance and discrimination by racists and religious bigots. “Desecrating the memory of George Floyd for public…
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Doors Finally Opened for Four African-Americans at Alabama Power; Will Balch be Terminated Next?
Friday’s late announcements appear to be the first time Crosswhite promoted or appointed four minorities at the same time. Just days after the public was denouncing Southern Company for audio comments by a corporate executive calling the suppression of African-Americans in the North Birmingham Bribery Scandal a “hypothesis,” the giant utility succumbed. Three months after the murder of George Floyd, Alabama Power, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southern Company, announced on late Friday the promotion of three African-Americans. According to their media relations website: Alabama Power on Friday announced leadership changes to enhance customer experience and community support. Tony Smoke has…
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Resounding Defeat of Balch Stooges in Vincent, Alabama
It took over two years, but inherent goodness prevailed! In another setback for Balch & Bingham, the election results from Tuesday night show that residents living in Vincent, Alabama united and tossed out the city’s leadership involved in the alleged “whites-only” land grab to build a rock quarry. Over a decade ago, Balch & Bingham lawyers (and their public relations stooges) spearheaded the strategic purchase of farm land and the fast-as-lightening re-zoning of said land, and oversaw the lucrative transactions for a client called White Rock Quarries. In 2018, we, the CDLU, met with residents who alleged that only white…
