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About Christopher S. Randolph Jr.
From an early age, Chris Randolph learned that solving complex problems is in his DNA. Growing up in Calhoun County, Alabama, he admired his grandfather, a sole practitioner with a law office in Anniston, and spent summers working in his office. After graduating cum laude from Harvard Law School, Chris started with a major Birmingham defense firm before joining Hare Wynn, where his skills flourished. He spent the early part of his career in mass torts and class action lawsuits, including years representing American corn farmers who suffered financial losses due to a seed company's negligence.
That work ultimately led to a $1.51 billion global settlement benefiting corn farmers nationwide. As his career progressed, Chris devoted more time to single-event cases, from victims of eighteen-wheeler truck accidents to a family who died of carbon monoxide poisoning. A number of his cases before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals have led to precedent-setting decisions. He regularly publishes articles in the Alabama Association for Justice Journal and serves as one of three Alabama lawyers on the Eleventh Circuit's Lawyers Advisory Committee.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Hare Wynn Newell & Newton
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Scott Powell of Hare Wynn Newell and Newton served as one of four co-lead class counsel in the $1.51 billion nationwide settlement against Syngenta, recovering losses for hundreds of thousands of U.S. corn growers, grain handlers, and ethanol producers whose market access to China was cut off after the company prematurely commercialized an unapproved GMO corn trait.
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.
Scott Powell of Hare Wynn Newell and Newton served as co-lead class counsel when a Kansas federal jury returned a $217.7 million compensatory verdict against Syngenta, finding the seed company negligent for commercializing its MIR162 GMO corn trait in the United States before China approved it for import, triggering a market collapse that cut off American farmers from one of their largest export buyers.
The widow of Derric Rush, a church music minister killed in a 2009 Birmingham crash by an off-duty police officer, won a default judgment against Club Volcano for serving the officer while intoxicated, after a trial on damages in 2013. The same judgment included $3.25 million against the officer, James Kendrick. The Alabama Supreme Court voided the club's judgment in 2014 because service by publication had not been shown to be justified.
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.
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