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.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Beasley Allen
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As chair of the plaintiffs' negotiating committee and Liaison Counsel in the Vioxx multidistrict litigation, Russ Herman directed the negotiations that produced a $4.85 billion settlement with Merck resolving approximately 45,000 to 50,000 personal-injury claims.
Monsanto and its chemical spinoff Solutia agreed in August 2003 to pay $700 million to resolve claims from more than 21,000 Anniston, Alabama residents who were exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls the company manufactured and dumped near their homes for nearly four decades.
San Francisco Unified School District's case was the first JUUL bellwether trial against Altria; after the plaintiffs rested, Altria agreed to pay $235 million to resolve roughly 6,000 pending e-vapor claims nationwide.
Beasley Allen, representing Alabama on contingency, secured $220 million from opioid distributors Cardinal Health and Cencora after roughly 18 months of litigation, with every dollar directed to statewide opioid abatement programs.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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