Bruce McKee
About Bruce McKee
Bruce McKee's career merges deep legal research with real-world advocacy. After graduating from the Columbia University School of Law, he began his legal career in his hometown of Florence, Alabama, then served as the central staff attorney for the Alabama Supreme Court. His varied career eventually led him to Hare Wynn, where he has been a key figure for over 35 years. He is the firm's primary brief writer and handles most of its appellate cases, bringing meticulous research and strategic thinking to every matter. He continued his education with an LL.M. from the University of Virginia and has served as a professor of law at Faulkner University and Samford University's Cumberland School of Law, mentoring the next generation of legal minds. He is a member of the Alabama Law Institute and has served on the Alabama Supreme Court's Advisory Committees on the Rules of Evidence and the Rules of Civil Procedure.
Notable case results
A Jefferson County bench trial ended in a $2.88 billion judgment against former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy for orchestrating an accounting fraud that inflated the company's reported earnings by $2.6 billion over six years.
A class action filed in 2002 on behalf of roughly 400,000 residents across six north Alabama counties ended in a court-approved $300 million cleanup settlement requiring 3M and co-defendants to remediate PFAS contamination throughout the Tennessee River watershed.
Hare Wynn secured a $100 million cash settlement from UBS on behalf of HealthSouth derivative stockholder plaintiffs, resolving claims that the investment bank aided and abetted one of the largest accounting frauds in American corporate history.
Hare Wynn attorneys Scott Powell and Bruce McKee won a roughly $48 million trial verdict for 11 Arkansas rice-farming families after Bayer CropScience's unapproved genetically modified rice contaminated the national supply and shut down European export markets. The verdict was one of the bellwether outcomes that pushed Bayer toward a $750 million global settlement.
An Arkansas jury awarded $5.9 million in compensatory damages and $42 million in punitive damages to Lonoke County rice farming families after Bayer CropScience's unapproved genetically modified LibertyLink rice contaminated the conventional U.S. rice supply.
A Bessemer jury returned a $15 million verdict against the owners of a BP convenience store that sold beer to an underage driver whose vehicle struck a tree, killing a 13-year-old passenger and injuring three others in May 2007.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
