Warren Matthews

Warren Matthews was born and raised in Ozark, Alabama. Warren progressed northward for undergraduate (University of Alabama), law school (Vanderbilt) and graduate law school (NYU), worked and lived in Birmingham for a number of years, and then moved his family to Greenville, Alabama, where he and his wife Elizabeth (Stabler) have raised their two children in the house where Elizabeth’s grandparents lived for 70 years. Since 1991, Warren has practiced law with Burr & Forman LLP, a law firm with offices throughout the Southeast. He opened the Montgomery Office in 2000 and now also works out of the Firm’s Mobile Office. Warren’s legal practice is centered on economic development, assisting companies, oftentimes foreign companies, with locating, constructing, equipping, starting up and operating new and expansion projects. He has been involved with start-up and expansion projects representing over 28,000 new jobs and an estimated $20 billion of capital investment. Representative projects include work for Mercedes-Benz, Honda, ThyssenKrupp, Ipsco Steel, Hyundai, Kia, Kronospan and Brown-Forman. Warren has been named to Best Lawyers in America in the fields of Economic Development, Nonprofit and Tax Law. Warren takes great pleasure in being involved with nonprofit endeavors. He has over 25 years of experience representing a myriad of nonprofit entities. Examples include the Alabama Basketball Foundation (Final Four Tournament), Alabama Prep Football Foundation (Super Six Championships), Birmingham Zoo, Birmingham Bar Foundation, Greenville YMCA and numerous private foundations. Warren is serving, or has served, the following nonprofits: Greenville YMCA (Chairman), Fort Dale Academy (Chairman), Montgomery Area YMCA, United Methodist Children’s Home, First United Methodist Greenville, Alabama Bar Association (Chairman, Bar Examiners). Personal interests include competing in pickleball tournaments with his wife, and playing golf and tennis.