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About Daniel Philyaw
Daniel E. Philyaw is a Partner at Butler Prather LLP's Atlanta office focusing on serious injury litigation. He earned his B.S. in Finance and Banking magna cum laude and B.A. in International Studies cum laude from the University of Missouri, then his J.D. cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was inducted into the Order of Barristers and named Best Oral Advocate at the 2017 Billings, Exum and Frye National Moot Court Competition and Best Oralist at the 2017 Georgia Intrastate Moot Court Competition. He was admitted to the Georgia bar in 2018.
He served as counsel on Brogdon v. Ford Motor Company, which produced a $2.5 billion jury verdict in 2025, and on the Ford Super Duty roof crush case that produced a $1.7 billion verdict. Other notable results include a $151 million verdict for an SUV rollover paralysis case, a $135.5 million verdict in an environmental nuisance matter, and a $2.8 million motor vehicle verdict. He is a member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice and has been named to the Super Lawyers Rising Stars list from 2022 through 2025.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A federal jury in Columbus, Georgia awarded $30.5 million in compensatory damages and $2.5 billion in punitive damages against Ford Motor Company for the deaths of Herman and Debra Mills, killed when the roof of their 2015 F-250 Super Duty crushed down on them in a rollover. Butler Prather LLP tried the case, with James E. Butler Jr., Ramsey Prather, Daniel Philyaw, and Allison Bailey on the trial team. The honest frame: Ford called the verdict impermissibly extreme, moved for a new trial, and in September 2025 settled this case and the related $1.7 billion Hill case on confidential terms, so the verdict was never collected as awarded.
A Gwinnett County jury awarded roughly $24 million in compensatory damages and $1.7 billion in punitive damages against Ford Motor Company for the 2014 rollover deaths of Melvin and Voncile Hill in a 2002 F-250, with James E. Butler Jr. of Butler Prather LLP as lead trial counsel; the Georgia Court of Appeals vacated the judgment in November 2024 and ordered a new trial, and Ford settled the case on confidential terms in September 2025 before a third trial could begin.
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