Alabama Rising Young Attorney Award

Established in 2020, the Alabama Rising Young Attorney Award recognizes a recent graduate or graduates who have shown significant leadership and purposeful service to the legal profession, their community, and the School of Law.

Christopher B. Driver
Class of 2015

Christopher B. Driver is a 2015 graduate of The University of Alabama School of Law and a partner at the Birmingham firm of Badham and Buck LLC, where he practices business and commercial litigation. Prior to joining Badham and Buck, Driver clerked for Judge L. Scott Coogler of the Northern District of Alabama.

Driver is actively involved in the legal community. He is currently the president of the Alabama State Bar Young Lawyers Section (YLS), and he has previously served as its treasurer, secretary, and vice president. As part of his service to YLS, Driver has served on the Alabama State Bar Executive Council, represented the Alabama State Bar as a delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates and YLS Assembly, helped plan YLS’s annual Orange Beach CLE, and volunteered several times at the YLS Minority Pre-Law Conference. He also serves on the Birmingham Bar Association’s YLS Executive Committee. In addition, Driver teaches trial advocacy as an adjunct professor at the Law School. He has been recognized as a Birmingham Business Journal Rising Star of Law, a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, and a Super Lawyers Rising Star in Business Litigation. Driver is also a member of the Rotaract Club of Birmingham.