Laird Hammons Laird
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About Laird Hammons Laird
Laird Hammons Laird is an Oklahoma City personal injury and civil rights trial firm co-founded in 2009 by Chris Hammons and the late Jeff Laird. The firm handles catastrophic injury, wrongful death, trucking and Section 1983 civil rights cases, including jail death and police accountability matters, across Oklahoma state and federal courts, and keeps an in-house courtroom for trial preparation. Its public trial results include the $126 million federal jury verdict in Gaines v. City of Moore in April 2026, entered as a $90 million judgment against the former officer and $125,000 against the City after the Governmental Tort Claims Act cap, and a unanimous $2 million federal jail death verdict for the Estate of Gregory Neil Davis. A separate of counsel practice handles consumer bankruptcy, estate planning and probate.
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On December 14, 2019 Emily Gaines, an 18-year-old Moore High School senior, was driving to take the ACT when Sgt. Kyle Lloyd of the Moore Police Department, off duty and rushing a key to another officer's patrol car for a department event, hit her broadside at 95 to 100 mph in a 50 zone. She died at the scene. On April 1, 2026 a federal jury returned $126,000,000. The court entered $90,000,000 against Lloyd, who is in prison, and cut the $36,000,000 against the City to $125,000 under Oklahoma's Governmental Tort Claims Act.
Gregory N. Davis, 53, was booked into the Oklahoma County Detention Center in August 2021 on a misdemeanor outraging-public-decency complaint. Over nine days a peptic ulcer perforated. Another inmate testified that he screamed in pain, cried and begged for a nurse for days; detention officers reported none of it and missed mandatory cell checks. He was found unresponsive during a mental-health check and died at a hospital on August 12, 2021. On April 17, 2026 a federal jury unanimously found the jail trust deliberately indifferent to his medical need and awarded his estate $2,000,000.
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