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“My clients know to call me and let me help,” says Alabama-based attorney Hope C. Hicks. And that is exactly what she wants them to do. Call, before a problem becomes trouble.
As a child, Hicks would occasionally visit her father Bill, a parole and probation officer for the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, at his office located inside the courthouse. “From a very early age I was in the courthouse and in the courtrooms and met the judges and lawyers,” says Hicks. Perhaps these visits are why she wanted to be a lawyer when she grew up. Or perhaps it was her dad telling her she “…argued enough [she] should be a lawyer…”
Either way, that’s exactly what she did.
After graduating from Sidney Lanier Senior High School in Montgomery, Alabama, Hicks decided to stay local. She attended Huntingdon College, where she majored in social sciences, before enrolling at Thomas Goode Jones School of Law.
Though she “was a good student” and “was lucky in that school came fairly easy,” recalls Hicks, “law school was very different” as she “had to work and study harder than [she] had ever done before in academics.” Reflecting on this academic challenge, she says “I think it prepared me well.”
During law school, Hicks worked for a law firm that did plaintiff’s work, and while she enjoyed the experience, she realized quickly enough that she didn’t want to be a plaintiff’s lawyer.
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