August 2008 - Ball, Ball, Matthews & Novak Announces the Opening
of an Office In Mobile and Chris Hume's Decision to Join the Firm

Ball, Ball, Matthews & Novak, P. A. announces plans for the firm to expand and open an office in Mobile, Alabama and that Christopher G. Hume, III, formerly a partner with Miller Hamilton Snider & Odom L.L.C., will join the firm as managing partner of the Mobile office effective September 1, 2008.

The Mobile office will be located on the 25th Floor of the AmSouth Building in downtown Mobile. Monty Montgomery, Jr., and Jay Watkins, attorneys who are currently with the Ball, Ball firm in its Daphne office, will be moving to the Mobile office in mid-October. Kathryn Drey, an attorney with the Miller Hamilton firm who works with Mr. Hume will also be joining the Ball Ball firm in its new Mobile office.

Ham Wilson, managing partner, said that having an office and presence in Mobile will allow our firm to grow and to better serve our clients in the Mobile/Baldwin County areas and throughout the State."

Ball, Ball, Matthews & Novak, one of the oldest law firms in the state, was founded in 1891 in Montgomery, Alabama.