Jennifer M. "Ginger" Busby

Ginger Busby regularly represents clients in evaluating risk, developing strategy, and in litigation. Ginger has acted as national counsel for several clients to direct litigation strategy and ensure efficiency, and she has tried almost 100 cases to date. She regularly handles product liability, construction, insurance, and commercial disputes, including participating in the defense of various types of class action litigation. She has also handled numerous employment matters over her career. She is very knowledgeable about and focuses part of her practice on a number of product engineering, manufacturing and design claims, including defending design defect allegations in HVAC matters, and she has defended numerous fire cases nationwide for several clients. Ginger also has extensive experience in coverage, bad faith insurance, health, long term care, reinsurance, and regulatory matters. Ginger also has over her career had extensive experience with labor and employment and railroad matters, including trying numerous Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) and Title VII cases. Ginger currently serves as National Counsel for a product manufacturer and Regional Counsel for both a health insurance company and another product manufacturer.

Ginger has practiced in Burr & Forman’s Litigation and Labor and Employment Law sections for over 30 years. She has chaired several practice groups and served as the Head of the Firm’s Litigation Section. She is a member of the firm's Transportation, Insurance, and Product Section (TIPS): Risk Mitigation and Complex Litigation section.

Ginger also has extensive legal industry involvement and leadership experience. She recently completed a three year term as a member of the American Bar Association Board of Governors. She previously served as the Alabama State Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates, Chair of the Section Officers Conference of the American Bar Association, and the immediate past Chair of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) of the American Bar Association. She previously served as Chair-Elect and Vice Chair, as well as, Secretary and Diversity Officer for TIPS. She has been a member of the TIPS Council for six years. In addition, Ginger served as the Director of the National Trial Academy which is held every year in Reno, Nevada. Ginger has also taught at several other Trial Academies and has been a co-director of the Leadership Academy for over 10 years. Ginger has also been selected for inclusion in the Alabama Super Lawyers and the Top 25 Women Lawyers in Alabama and several other organizations and honors.

Ginger is very active in other local organizations. Ginger served as President of the Homewood, Alabama City Council from 2000 to 2008, and is a member of Leadership Birmingham.

Ginger has authored several articles related to trial practice and tips for young lawyers and speaks regularly on various trial and leadership topics. During law school, she was articles editor of the Cumberland Law Review, an oralist on the National Moot Court Team, and a member of both the Order of Barristers and Curia Honoris. Prior to law school, Ginger was employed in the communications field and also worked for the Leukemia Society of America.

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®: Insurance Law since 2013; Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants since 2021; Product Liability Litigation - Defendants since 2021; Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants since 2023
• Mid-South Super Lawyers, Business Litigation since 2016, Person Injury - Products: Defense (2023)
• "Best of the Bar," Birmingham Business Journal (2019)
• James K. Carroll Leadership Award by the American Bar Association, Recipient (2017)
• Alabama Super Lawyers, Business Litigation (2010-2015), "Top 25 Women" in Alabama (2010 & 2011)

• American Bar Association
• Alabama State Bar
• State Bar of Georgia
• Florida Bar Association
• Birmingham Bar Association

Legal Practice Assistant

Alesia Day
(205) 458-5417
aday@burr.com