About Cole Portis
Cole Portis joined Beasley Allen in 1991 and leads the Personal Injury and Product Liability Section. His practice focuses on representing families facing catastrophic loss, including wrongful death and product defect cases. Cole is a past president of the Alabama State Bar, Montgomery County Bar Association, Alabama Young Lawyers Association, and Montgomery County Trial Lawyers Association. He and his wife Joy have twelve children, nine of whom are adopted, and they served as foster parents for fourteen years. Cole earned his B.A. from Auburn University in 1986 and his J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1990.
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A Montgomery jury returned an $11.9 billion verdict against ExxonMobil in 2003 after finding the company fraudulently underpaid Alabama on natural gas royalties from Mobile Bay state leases, though the Alabama Supreme Court later reversed the fraud count and punitive damages, leaving compensatory damages only.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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