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About Brett Thompson
Brett Thompson is a Principal at Cory Watson Attorneys in Birmingham, Alabama, focused on personal injury and complex litigation matters.
Thompson earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, where he served as Associate Editor for the Cumberland Law Review. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Mississippi. He is admitted to the Alabama State Bar and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama.
Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Thompson now resides in Birmingham. His honors include Best Lawyers in America (2026), Best Lawyers Ones to Watch (2022-2025), Super Lawyers Mid-South Rising Star (2021-2023), and recognition as part of the National Law Journal's Top 100 Verdicts of 2020 litigation team.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cory Watson Attorneys
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Cory Watson's Jon Conlin, a co-lead lawyer on the plaintiffs' steering committee, helped drive DuPont and Chemours to a $670.7 million global settlement resolving about 3,550 C-8 water-contamination cancer and injury claims.
A federal jury in Columbus found that DuPont's C-8 contamination caused Travis Abbott's testicular cancer and awarded him and his wife $50 million. After the trial court applied Ohio's cap on his wife's loss-of-consortium damages, the enforceable judgment came to about $40.3 million, which the Sixth Circuit later affirmed.
A Los Angeles jury found a defective brake sensor in a 2004 Infiniti QX56 caused the 2012 Hollywood crash that killed a mother and her two daughters, and the $25 million verdict was later upheld on appeal.
A Columbus federal jury awarded Kenneth Vigneron Sr. $2 million in compensatory and $10.5 million in punitive damages after finding DuPont's C-8 contamination caused his testicular cancer.
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