About John W. Edwards
John W. Edwards was born and raised in Billings, Montana, and graduated from Billings West High School in 1998. He earned a B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Montana in 2003 and his law degree from the University of Montana in 2008.
While at the University of Montana, John played on two Football I-AA National Championship game teams, including the 2001 title team. Between college and law school he interned at the Edwards Law Firm and decided to follow his father and brother into the practice of law. He was admitted to the Montana State Bar in 2008 and practices with his father Clifford and brother Christopher as Edwards & Culver.
John is a member of the Montana Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, and the American Bar Association, and serves on the Montana Board of Public Education. A fourth generation Montanan, he enjoys hunting, fishing, and skiing with his wife Hollis and their two children.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Edwards & Culver
These results are credited to Edwards & Culver. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Ralph Hutt worked 18 months at W.R. Grace's asbestos-contaminated vermiculite mill in Libby, Montana in the late 1960s and developed asbestosis decades later. A Cascade County jury found the mill's workers' compensation insurer, Maryland Casualty Company, breached an independent duty to warn him about hazards it tracked through undisclosed chest X-rays, and awarded $36.5 million in February 2022. The trial judge completed Montana's mandatory review of the punitive portion in January 2023 and declined to reduce it, calling the insurer's conduct reprehensible. Maryland Casualty appealed, but the appeal ended in a confidential settlement in 2024, so the verdict itself, not any later court reduction, is what stood.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
