About Grant Davis

Grant L. Davis is a founding partner of Davis, Bethune and Jones, which he established in 2001 alongside Scott S. Bethune and Thomas C. Jones, colleagues he met in law school. Davis represents individuals harmed by negligent or intentional acts, concentrating his practice on plaintiff litigation in serious injury, wrongful death, dangerous products, sexual assault, medical malpractice, insurance bad faith, and railroad injury cases. He earned his law degree from the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law and has served as an adjunct professor of law at that institution. Davis is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Inner Circle of Advocates, a group limited to 100 of the best plaintiff trial lawyers in the United States.

He served as President of the Missouri Trial Lawyers Association in 2008. Best Lawyers in America named him Lawyer of the Year in 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2016. His career verdicts include a $2.2 billion jury verdict in Hayes v. Courtney (2002), a $160 million verdict in Alcorn v. U.P. (1999), a $750 million settlement in In re Genetically Modified Rice (2012), and a $30 million verdict in McCormack v. Capital Electric (2003).

Proven verdicts and settlements

Georgia Hayes, a Kansas City area ovarian cancer patient, sued pharmacist Robert Courtney after learning he had diluted the chemotherapy drugs used in her treatment. A Jackson County jury found Courtney liable and awarded Hayes $225,571,439 in compensatory damages and $2 billion in punitive damages, the first of hundreds of similar suits against Courtney to reach trial. The trial judge later found the award excessive and cut it by remittitur to $330,071,439, and that reduced judgment stood. Hayes herself and the case reporter covering the verdict both said she was unlikely to ever collect a significant portion of it.

Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri (Kansas City) · 2002Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

A 15-year-old boy went into Arkansas Children's Hospital for surgery to remove the brain tissue causing his seizures. The surgeon opened the wrong side of his head and removed healthy tissue before turning to the correct side. His parents were not told, and learned of it more than a year later during an unrelated examination.

Pulaski County Circuit Court, AR (affirmed, Arkansas Supreme Court) · 2012Medical 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 Missouri Kansas City School of Law
J.D.

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Missouri

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