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Bruce McKee

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Birmingham, ALAdmitted 1981

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.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$2.9 billionVerdict

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.

Jefferson County Circuit Court, Birmingham, AL · 2009Read the full story →
$300 million+Settlement

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.

Circuit Court of Morgan County, Alabama · 2022Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$100 millionSettlement

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.

Jefferson County Circuit Court, Birmingham, AL · 2008Read the full story →
$48 millionVerdict

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.

Circuit Court of Lonoke County, Arkansas (affirmed by Arkansas Supreme Court Dec 2011) · 2011Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$15 millionVerdict

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.

Circuit Court, Jefferson County (Bessemer Division), Alabama; affirmed by Alabama Supreme Court (Nov 2015) · 2013Car AccidentsRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Columbia University School of Law
J.D., 1981
University of Alabama
Undergraduate, 1978

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Alabama, admitted 1981

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