Attorney Profile
Ms. Faulk is a native of Greenville, Alabama and has lived in Montgomery, Alabama since 2000. Ms. Faulk graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Alabama in 1997 and went on to earn a Master’s degree in Secondary Education/History from Auburn University Montgomery in 2004. She taught history at a local high school while attending Thomas Goode Jones School of Law at night. She has been practicing law since October 2008.
Until January 1, 2015, she was in private practice in Montgomery at The Law Offices of E. Peyton Faulk, LLC, practicing in the areas of labor and employment litigation and counseling on behalf of employees, with emphasis on claims of breach of contract, defamation, retaliation, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, and race, age, gender and disability discrimination and Family and Medical Leave Act violations. She also practiced in the areas of civil rights litigation in defense of protections afforded by the Bill of Rights and §1983, with an emphasis on Fourth Amendment, Eighth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment violations. In January 2015, she was employed as an Assistant Public Defender at the new Office of the Public Defender for the 15th Judicial Circuit providing indigent criminal defense services in Montgomery County. Most recently she served the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office as a Deputy District Attorney. In her positions as a Assistant Public Defender and as a Deputy District Attorney, Ms. Faulk handled state felony and misdemeanor cases from arrest through trial.
Ms. Faulk is currently serving as Board Member of the Montgomery County Bar Association, Vice-President and Board Member of the Montgomery County Association for Justice, and she participates in the Hugh Maddox American Inn of Court. She was selected to the 2013 and 2014 Alabama Super Lawyers Rising Stars list. Ms. Faulk is licensed to practice in the State of Alabama, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
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