Cutter Hughes was a partner when he retired at Bradley. He practiced in the areas of media law, litigation and public utility law, and represented newspapers, radio and television stations, and public utilities for more than 25 years. He served as the Alabama editor of the Media Law Resource Center Annual 50-State Survey of Media Privacy and Related Law and was listed for 15 years in The Best Lawyers in America®. He is a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Alabama College of Communication.

Cutter represented the electric, gas and water boards for the City of Huntsville in trial and appellate litigation, and served as an attorney for the Huntsville Electric Utility Board for more than 25 years. He regularly participated in APPA and TVPPA legal seminars and served on panels addressing current legal topics pertinent to power distributors at legal conferences.

Bar Admissions

• Alabama, 1968
• Virginia

Court Admissions

• United States Supreme Court
• United States Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
• United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
• United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama

Education

• University of Virginia School of Law, LL.B., 1968
• King's College, University of London School of Law, LL.M., 1971
• Davidson College, A.B., 1965

Significant Accomplishments
Cutter handles a wide variety of media cases, several of which are listed below. He has handled several important media cases on behalf of the Alabama Press Association and other news organizations which have had an impact on the law in this area. A recent example is Mary Barksdale v. Richard Allen, Director, Department of Corrections, which establishes important principles for access to public records by the public and the media. 

He has also been involved at the trial and appellate levels in some groundbreaking public utility cases, several of which are listed below. Notable is the ProLiance Energy case in which a verdict of over $35,000,000 was obtained for a public utility.