McLure & Associates brings solutions where they’re needed most.
Our practice areas include Family Law, Debt Relief – Bankruptcy, Asset Protection & Estate Planning, Business Consulting & Risk Planning, Immigration, Criminal Defense, Personal Injury, Employment Law, Civil Rights & Constitutional Law, and Government Affairs.

ADVOCATE
McLure & Associates speaks for you. We advocate on behalf of individuals in need, families in crisis, and businesses on the rise. McLure & Associates brings positive outcomes in areas of family law, criminal defense, personal injury, debt relief – bankruptcy, and more.

COUNSELOR
Uncharted waters need a navigator. We are here for you. The difference between landing successfully at your destination and being shipwrecked is often the quality of your counselors. We’ve been there … and we’ve helped others successfully navigate the same waters.

ATTORNEY
Relentless, trustworthy, faithful, tenacious … these are all the qualities you need in an attorney. These are the qualities you will find at McLure & Associates. We are doing something different at McLure & Associates – listening to you … and protecting what matters most.
About Our Attorneys
Founding Attorney: SAM MCLURE graduated from Huntington College in 2007 with a degree in Business Administration. Before transferring to Huntington College, he attended Bethune-Cookman University as the first minority-white running back in the historically black conference.He went on to Jones School of Law and graduated with honors, cum laude. During law school, Sam had the distinguished honor of serving with the Faulkner Law Review, clerking with Supreme Court Justice Patricia Smith, clerking with the Attorney General’s Office, and studying International Law with Cornell University in Paris, France.
However, Sam’s most memorable law school achievement was adopting his first child from the Hungarian foster-care system. It was through that process that he and his wife saw the great need to protect children in the foster care system and to encourage adoption.
Sam’s law practice has maintained an orbit around protecting vulnerable and at-risk children. He and his wife have four children and have been actively engaged in the foster care system. Sam is the author of The End of Orphan Care, a book devoted to unpacking the orthodoxy and orthopraxy of orphan care. He has also founded or served with ministries and community outreach initiatives such as Kiwanis, Personhood Alabama, Proposal 16, and Sav-a-Life Pregnancy Resource Center.
Associate Attorney: BEN DUPRÉ has extensive appellate, judicial, and public administrative experience in Alabama, including 14 years serving on the Supreme Court of Alabama as a staff attorney and chief of staff to two Chief Justices, Roy Moore and Tom Parker.
In private practice, Ben defended religious liberty, unborn children, and constitutional rights in the U.S. Supreme Court, Alabama Supreme Court, and federal and state courts throughout the country. He is licensed to practice law in Alabama and in Virginia, where he graduated from Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach.
At McLure and Associates, Ben is the spearhead of the appellate division and handles a wide array of legal issues.
Ben and his wife Jerusha have 7 children home-educated with Ezekiel Academy, where Ben serves on the Board. Ben and his family worship at Evangel Church in Montgomery.
Associate Attorney: GREG LOCKLIER recently retired after 25 years in state service, having worked as an Assistant District Attorney in the 15th Judicial Circuit and as Assistant Attorney General. Greg has extensive experience working in state regulatory matters and governmental and legislative affairs. Greg has also served as the General Counsel for the Alabama Hospital Association.
In addition to his work with McLure & Associates, Greg serves as a part-time Assistant District Attorney in the 12th Judicial Circuit.
Greg is married to Angela and lives in Pike Road.
Meet the Rest of Our Team
DAKOTA MILLS
Chief Operations Officer
LISA BANNISTER
Administrative Assistant
GARRETT HERRING
Paralegal
GREGORY TEAL
Paralegal
HANNAH MILLS
Paralegal
MARY BETH MCLURE
Client Relations Coordinator