Lori Creel Baird is a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law in 2010 and was admitted to practice in Alabama the same year.  She received her Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in English and French from the University of Alabama in 2007.

Ms. Baird is licensed to practice law in the states of Alabama and Mississippi, and she is admitted to the United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama and the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi. She is also admitted to practice in the Tribal Courts of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

Ms. Baird is a member of the Real Property Section of the Mississippi State Bar, the Mississippi Bankruptcy Conference, and the Tuscaloosa County Bar Association. Before joining the firm in 2012, Ms. Baird worked as a law clerk for Judge James H. Roberts, Jr. in the Sixth Judicial Circuit.