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.

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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 joined The Adoption Law Firm. In addition to child welfare law, 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. Greg is married to Angela and lives in Pike Road. He is the proud father to two children and a recent grandfather to a beautiful granddaughter. 

Greg offers legal service in many areas, including governmental relations and administrative law, areas of experience he developed as a governmental attorney.

The scope of governmental oversight over so many areas of life is, as many know, quite broad. If you need assistance in dealing with a governmental agency related to adverse decisions or policy, licensing, or regulatory  issues you are encountering, please reach out to set up a consultation with Greg.

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Associate Attorney: WILL JENNE’s calling to the legal profession began as a calling to vocational ministry. While pursuing his undergraduate degree in Theology and working in youth ministry, he was challenged by James 1:27 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.”

After recognizing the legal profession as an opportunity to live out his Christian witness through advocacy and justice, he attended Jones School of Law with a particular interest in adoption and family law. Will is grateful and excited for the opportunity to serve clients as an associate attorney and to use his legal career to advocate for children, support families, and serve others with compassion, integrity, and excellence. He considers his work in adoption and family law both a professional calling and a ministry to the Lord.

Will and his wife, Albian, live in Opelika with their son.

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