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Jim Pratt Appointed as Jefferson County Mediator

pratt Hare Wynn’s Jim Pratt, President of the Alabama State Bar, has been appointed to help mediate a settlement in a 37-year-old lawsuit involving unfair hiring practices by various governments in Jefferson County.

U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith appointed Pratt, who will provide free mediation services in a case described by Judge Smith as perhaps ''the oldest governmental, systematic discrimination litigation'' in the nation.

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