Brooke M. Nixon

Brooke provides counsel to a wide array of companies and clients to develop preventative measures to minimize risks and avoid the expense of litigation. She has represented clients in all types of discrimination and harassment litigation, noncompetition disputes, and retaliatory discharge claims. She also enjoys working with new businesses to help them handle a variety of workplace issues. Additionally, she provides management and employee training on numerous topics including anti-discrimination and harassment policies, effective discipline, employee investigations, FLSA, and retaliation. Brooke assists the firm’s clients in representational proceedings pending with the NLRB, negotiating and advising clients concerning the administration of collective bargaining agreements, and representing clients in grievance and arbitration proceedings.

Brooke’s goal is to provide timely, skillful, and efficient advice to help her clients confidently solve the daily legal and practical challenges of owning and running a business.

• Best Lawyers in America^® (2021-2022)
• Rising Stars of Law, Birmingham Business Journal, 2019
• Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent® Peer Rated for Highest Level of Professional Excellence
• First female to hold the position of Chief Volunteer Officer of the Tuscaloosa YMCA
• Tuscaloosa News Top 40 under 40 Business Professionals, 2018

• Bessemer Academy Board of Directors (Board Member 2014-present; Vice-President 2016-2020; President 2020-present)
• YMCA Board of Directors (2012-2018; Chief Volunteer Officer 2016)
• American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section
• Alabama Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law and Young Lawyers sections
• Florida Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law and Young Lawyers sections
• Tuscaloosa Human Resource Professionals, Legislative Chair (2012-2018)
• Leadership Tuscaloosa (Class of 2014)
• Young Professionals of Tuscaloosa, Director (2012-2016)

Brooke is an adjunct professor at the University of Alabama School of Law and Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. She has been leading a small group for a number of years where she and a group of women do an aerobic kickboxing routine and then have a Bible study afterwards, an interesting combination that she loves. Brooke also enjoys spending time with her husband Michael and their two daughters, Tyler and Harper.