About Lance Gould
Lance Gould joined Beasley Allen in 1997. He focuses on commercial termite damage litigation, whistleblower litigation, and class actions. Throughout his career, he has secured multi-million-dollar settlements and verdicts compelling corporations to correct improper practices, including a trial team role in a major Syngenta herbicide class action. He co-chaired the Wage and Hour Section of the Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group for 10 years. Lance serves on multiple Alabama State Bar committees. He earned his B.S. from Auburn University and his J.D. from Faulkner University's Thomas Goode Jones School of Law.
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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.
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