About W. Clayton Harris
W. Clayton Harris is dedicated to supporting clients through the personal injury process. Before studying law, he built a career in journalism and public relations. While at the University of St. Thomas, he participated in the negotiations team and worked with Professor Mark Osler, supporting efforts to lobby Congress on economic-based approaches to combating drug crime.
He began his legal career as a deputy public defender for the City of Aurora, earning the Retureta Trial Excellence Award in 2016. He then spent over four years at a prominent Denver-area personal injury firm, during which he second-chaired a first-degree homicide trial and successfully defended 47 individuals against a company pursuing excessive fees from out-of-state customers. He received his J.D. from the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis in 2013 and his B.A. in Journalism from Auburn University in 2005.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh Jardine
These results are credited to Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh Jardine. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Maricopa County jury awarded $58.5 million to families who donated deceased relatives' bodies believing they would be used for medical research, only to learn the Biological Resource Center of Arizona had dismembered and sold the remains to brokers worldwide.
A federal jury awarded Georgina Perez $55.5 million after a Sunbeam Express Crock Multi-Cooker lid blew off and caused severe burns; the court later reduced the award to roughly $9.1 million under Colorado's statutory damages cap.
A Denver jury awarded $31.8 million to the family of an 82-year-old woman killed and other residents injured when a punctured Xcel Energy gas line exploded at Heather Gardens retirement community in 2018, assigning Xcel 12% of the fault.
A Sears technician miswired Jacqueline Gebert's electric stove in January 2019, and she was electrocuted while lifting a pan. An Arapahoe County jury found Sears negligent and awarded $2,700,000, made up of $2,000,000 in noneconomic damages and $700,000 for physical impairment. The court cut the noneconomic part to the $468,010 statutory limit, so $1,168,010 stood. The Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed in 2023 and upheld the cap against a Seventh Amendment challenge.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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