Wendell Tillery
Partner
Wendell handles discrimination and disability rights cases, at work and in housing.
Wendell has tried cases to juries in state and federal court, first for a legal aid office and then in private practice. He joined Josephine to focus on the cases he cared most about: workers, tenants and people with disabilities who were treated as if the law didn’t cover them.
He is known in the office for reading every page of a personnel file, twice.
Cases
- Workplace discrimination and retaliation
- Housing discrimination
- Disability accommodation
- Age discrimination
Admissions and education
Bar admissions
Alabama
1989
Courts
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama
1990
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
1994
Supreme Court of the United States
2008
Education
J.D., Cumberland School of Law, Samford University
1989
B.A., Political Science, Miles College
1985
Languages
English
Memberships
National Employment Lawyers Association
Outside the office
Wendell coaches a youth baseball team at Rickwood Field every spring and has opinions about the infield fly rule.
Talk to Wendell
Tell us what happened. If Wendell isn’t the right lawyer for it, we’ll say who is.