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About R. Akira Watson
R. Akira Watson is an Associate Attorney in the Class Action Practice Group at Cory Watson Attorneys in Birmingham, Alabama, focusing on environmental litigation, particularly PFAS chemical contamination cases affecting water supplies.
Watson earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law, where she served as Best Senior Editor of the Alabama Law Review. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is admitted to the Alabama State Bar and to the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Alabama, the Northern District of Georgia, and the District of South Carolina.
Born and raised in Birmingham, she attended college overseas before returning for law school. Her honors include Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch (2023-2026) and Mid-South Super Lawyers Rising Star (2022-2024).
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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