About Tom Methvin
Tom Methvin is the Managing Attorney of Beasley Allen and has led the firm through decades of complex national litigation. He began his career at Beasley Allen representing victims of consumer fraud, many of whom were illiterate or underprivileged. Under his leadership, the firm has secured billions in verdicts and settlements.
He served as lead attorney in Carlisle v. Whirlpool, which produced the largest predatory lending verdict in American history at $581 million in Hale County, Alabama. Tom served as president of the Alabama State Bar from 2009 to 2010, focusing on Access to Justice. He graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in corporate finance and earned his law degree from Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham in 1988.
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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