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About Joel Caldwell
Joel Caldwell is a Principal at Cory Watson Attorneys in Birmingham, Alabama, focused on helping clients during difficult times and securing justice through settlements and verdicts.
Caldwell earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a minor in Managerial Studies from Vanderbilt University, where he was a four-year letterman on the football team and attended on a full athletic scholarship. He is admitted to the Alabama State Bar.
Caldwell serves as President of the Magic City Bar Association (2023) and as a Birmingham Bar Foundation Fellow and Board Member. His honors include Super Lawyers (2025), Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch (2021-2025), Mid-South Super Lawyers Rising Star (2022-2024), and the Alabama State Bar Pro Bono Exemplar award.
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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