Elizabeth Chambers

Principal Emeritus at Cory Watson Attorneys
Birmingham, AL22 years experience

About Elizabeth Chambers

Elizabeth 'Beth' E. Chambers is Principal Emeritus at Cory Watson Attorneys in Birmingham, Alabama, focused on dangerous drug and medical device litigation.

Chambers earned her Juris Doctor with honors from Birmingham School of Law in 2003, a Bachelor of Science from the University of West Florida, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (1979). She is admitted to the Alabama State Bar, the Supreme Court of Alabama, and U.S. District Courts in Alabama, California, Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee, Nebraska, Illinois, New York, and Ohio.

Since joining Cory Watson in 2003, Chambers has represented thousands of clients injured by dangerous drugs or medical devices and has been involved in some of the largest mass tort cases in the country. Her honors include Super Lawyers (2012-2025), Best Lawyers in America (2020-2026), and B-Metro Top Women Attorneys (2015-2020).

Proven verdicts and settlements at Cory Watson Attorneys

These results are credited to Cory Watson Attorneys. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

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.

U.S. District Court, S.D. Ohio (MDL 2433) · 2017Product LiabilityRead the full story →

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.

Columbus, Ohio (U.S. District Court, S.D. Ohio) · 2020Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$25 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2017 · #20

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.

Los Angeles, CA (Superior Court of California) · 2017Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$12.5 millionVerdictTop 20 in Ohio · #20

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.

Columbus, Ohio (U.S. District Court, S.D. Ohio) · 2017Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$9 millionVerdictTop 20 in Alabama · #18

A Lee County jury awarded the family of 20-year-old Auburn University student Hope Johnson $9 million, a county record, after urgent care doctors missed the blood clots that killed her.

Lee County, AL (Opelika) · 2019Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Alabama
State Bar of Supreme Court of Alabama
Birmingham Bar Association
Alabama State Bar
Alabama Association for Justice
American Association for Justice
Southern Trial Lawyers (Board of Governors)
National Trial Lawyers
Women En Mass

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers (2012-2025)
Best Lawyers in America (2020-2026)
B-Metro Top Women Attorneys (2015-2020)
B-Metro Magazine TopFlight Attorneys (2019-2021)
National Law Journal's Top 100 Verdicts of 2020

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$30 Million Verdict After Trauma Surgeon Started Second Elective Surgery While Gunshot Patient Bled Out
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$64 million · Federal Jury Awards $64 Million to Charity Bingo Developers Blocked by VictoryLand
Hollis, Wright & Clay, P.C.
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$10 Million Verdict for Deputy Mauled by Unmuzzled Police K-9 During Training

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.