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Mr. Bergquist graduated from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University and was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 1992, and shortly thereafter to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U. S. District Courts of the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama. He joined the firm of Parsons, Lee & Juliano, P.C. in 1992 and has worked as a civil trial attorney since that date. He became a shareholder of the firm in 2002. He was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 2007.

John was born in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. He grew up in southern Georgia, Atlanta and Taiwan. John graduated from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama in 1981 with a B.S. in business administration and accepted full time employment with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama. After a successful career servicing national accounts, he returned to law school and earned his J.D. from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in 1992. While in law school he was a member of the Henry Upson Sims Moot Court Board, and successfully wrote and was accepted for membership to both the Trial Advocacy Board and Cumberland Law Review. He graduated as Executive Editor of the Cumberland Law Review.

Mr. Bergquist is a member of the Alabama State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Birmingham Bar Association, the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, the Defense Research Institute and the CLM.

Mr. Bergquist has completed numerous jury trials and arbitrations to conclusion at all levels of court in both State and Federal courts. He has presented oral arguments on behalf of his clients before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Alabama Supreme Court. During his career he has successfully handled, severe personal injury defense cases, motor vehicle accident defense, tractor-trailer and heavy commercial vehicle accidents, over 100 construction defect cases in both commercial and residential structures. He has defended state-wide and nation-wide class actions. He has assisted in settlement of more than 150 others matters as part of a nationwide class settlement. He has defended many product liability suits involving subjects from complex industrial equipment to consumer appliances. In addition he has successfully used mediation to obtain favorable settlements in more than 100 cases.

In recognition of his civil trial accomplishments, Mr. Bergquist has been peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Bergquist’s primary areas of practice include general insurance defense litigation, construction defect litigation, product liability litigation, tractor-trailer and other motor vehicle litigation, personal injury litigation, and appellate work.

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