Justin is Regional Counsel for Cooper Tire in 12 southeastern states. He is Liaison Partner for the Firm as a Preferred Legal Provider for Chevron. Justin has extensive experience as lead counsel in over 100 product liability cases. He has over 15 years of experience with natural resources matters representing a natural gas utility, coal mines and natural gas and oil producers.
Justin seeks to apply a client's objectives to the efficient management of legal matters from a business perspective. Justin partners with clients to manage matters entrusted to him proactively towards an effective, practical and cost-effective resolution.
Justin is Regional Counsel for Cooper Tire in 12 southeastern states. He is Liaison Partner for the Firm as a Preferred Legal Provider for Chevron. Justin has extensive experience as lead counsel in over 100 product liability cases. He has over 15 years of experience with natural resources matters representing a natural gas utility, coal mines and natural gas and oil producers.
Justin seeks to apply a client's objectives to the efficient management of legal matters from a business perspective. Justin partners with clients to manage matters entrusted to him proactively towards an effective, practical and cost-effective resolution.
Justin handles cases across the country including in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and South Carolina. He has handled to resolution over 100 products liability cases as lead counsel. Justin represents clients in the following industries: Products Liability, Tires, Natural Resources and Oil & Gas. His experience includes:
- Defense of a major oil company against allegations that hundreds of coal bed methane gas wells converted natural gas for more than a dozen years.
- Responsible for an international arbitration in Beijing, China concerning product liability and commercial indemnity claims.
- Significant trade secret and Protective Order issues.
- Representation of an Alabama coal mine as plaintiff against one of the world's leading manufacturers of hydraulic support shields for coal mines.
- Authored legislation establishing the exclusive remedies for subsidence damage from underground coal mining in Alabama.
- Developing numerous Daubert challenges to expert witnesses.
- Management of portfolio of cases on a regional basis.
- Structuring attack of opposing experts in nationwide underground storage tank class action