Business Law
Corporate Law
Estate Planning
Taxation
University of Miami School of Law (LL.M., Taxation 1988)
Tulane University Law School (J.D., 1985)
University of Louisiana at Monroe (B.B.A., 1982)
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Tax Court
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
Supreme Court of Alabama (includes admission to all state level courts in the state of Alabama)
Darrell Cartwright has extensive experience representing businesses of all sizes, their owners, and employees. His practice focuses on corporate law, taxation, and estate planning. Birmingham Magazine named him as one of Birmingham’s Top Attorneys for twelve consecutive years in the areas of taxation law, corporate finance, probate law, wills and trusts and real property law.
Darrell has taught business law and taxation at Birmingham School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham Southern College, and Jefferson State Community College for more than two decades. He has been a Bar Review Instructor for the Alabama State Bar Examination, and has presented numerous seminars to attorneys, CPAs, and financial planners.
Darrell was born in Kentucky. He and his family have lived in Birmingham since 1990.
Darrell earned a Masters of Law degree (LL.M.) in Taxation from the University of Miami School of Law, where he graduated at the top of his class. He was the recipient of the Tulane Legislative Scholarship his senior year at Tulane Law School and received honors for best oral argument in Moot Court Competition. Darrell successfully passed the CPA Exam while attending Tulane Law School. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Louisiana at Monroe with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, where he was a member of the University’s Mortar Board. Darrell has an “AV Preeminent Rating” by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell.