Laura A. Calloway

Laura A. Calloway has served as the Director of the Alabama State Bar's Practice Management Assistance Program since 1997. Before joining the Alabama State Bar to establish the program, she practiced law in Montgomery, Alabama, for 16 years as a solo practitioner and member of two small firms, concentrating her practice in residential real estate, collections, consumer bankruptcy and family law. She is a graduate of Troy University, where she received her undergraduate degree in finance. She received her J.D. from the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. She is a member of the American Bar Association, where she participates in the Law Practice Management Section and serves on the section's Practice Management Advisors' Committee. She is a member of the planning board of ABA TECHSHOW® and, along with David Bilinsky of the Law Society of British Columbia, is an author of Profitability, a regular column on financial issues for small firm practitioners which appears in Law Practice Magazine. She has recently joined the staff of the magazine as financial editor, and was appointed to the section's governing council for a three year term beginning in September of 2006.