R. Bryant McCulley

Proven Verdicts
Washington, DC

About R. Bryant McCulley

R. Bryant McCulley is the Managing Partner and Owner of Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP, having joined in March 2021. He is an experienced trial lawyer whose practice spans antitrust, securities, healthcare, and mass tort matters. Notable results include leading work on an $82 million settlement in a nationwide RICO class action and a $24 million settlement in a multistate indirect purchaser antitrust class action; collectively, antitrust matters in which he has been involved have recovered over $2 billion. He has represented clients in mass torts including the BP Oil Spill and Camp Lejeune water contamination cases, and has served as outside counsel to the States of Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Utah in healthcare fraud litigation. After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Karon O. Bowdre of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$5.5 billion (minimum)Settlement

After fifteen years of litigation and three failed bankruptcy maneuvers by Johnson and Johnson subsidiaries, Ashcraft and Gerel attorneys R. Bryant McCulley and Michelle Parfitt helped negotiate a global, uncapped settlement of at least $5.5 billion covering approximately 76,000 ovarian-cancer claims.

D.N.J. MDL No. 2738 · 2026Product LiabilityRead the full story →
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Practice areas

Education

Washington and Lee University School of Law
J.D., 2002
Hampden-Sydney College
Undergraduate, 1998

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of South Carolina
State Bar of Alabama
State Bar of Florida
State Bar of District of Columbia
State Bar of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
State Bar of U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Awards & recognition

Phi Beta Kappa
Omicron Delta Kappa
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar
Editor-in-Chief, Washington & Lee Law Review

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