L. Chris Stewart
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About L. Chris Stewart
L. Chris Stewart is the Managing Partner of Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys. He is recognized worldwide as one of the top civil rights lawyers of his generation, having represented some of the most prominent civil rights cases of this century, including those of Walter Scott, Alton Sterling, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Rayshard Brooks. Stewart handles wrongful death, civil rights, premises liability, trucking, and sexual assault cases. He made U.S. history by winning the first billion-dollar jury verdict for a rape victim and has collected over $200 million in personal injury cases for his clients.
He has been featured in international media including CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, Fox News, Good Morning America, The Today Show, and Forbes. A double HBCU alumnus, he graduated from Xavier University of Louisiana with honors in English, earned a Master of Science in Public Health from Tulane University, and received his J.D. from Howard University School of Law. He is a board member of the Southern Center for Human Rights and Georgia Appleseed, and is a member of the Atlanta Bar Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Clayton County jury awarded $1 billion to a woman who was raped at age 14 by an armed security guard her employer hired without verifying he was licensed to carry a weapon.
Minneapolis agreed to pay $27 million to George Floyd's family, the largest pre-trial civil rights wrongful death settlement in U.S. history, with L. Chris Stewart and Justin Miller among the attorneys who represented the family.
A Forsyth County jury awarded $16 million to a woman sexually assaulted in her Winston-Salem Residence Inn room after a hotel night clerk who had not been properly trained handed a visibly intoxicated stranger a keycard to her room.
The City of North Charleston paid $6.5 million to the family of Walter Scott, an unarmed man shot in the back by a police officer after a routine traffic stop, in what attorney L. Chris Stewart described as the largest pre-lawsuit settlement in South Carolina history.
The City of Baton Rouge agreed to pay $4.5 million to the five children of Alton Sterling, who was fatally shot by police outside a Baton Rouge convenience store in July 2016, after the East Baton Rouge Metro Council approved the settlement in February 2021.
AirMaxx Trampoline Park in St. Cloud, Minnesota agreed to pay $3 million to settle claims brought by Anthony Seitz, a Brainerd man left permanently paralyzed after striking the bottom of a foam pit at the facility in August 2015.
The City of East Point, Georgia paid $1 million, the maximum under its insurance policy, to settle the family's claims after two officers shocked Gregory Towns Jr. with a Taser 14 times while he was handcuffed and on the ground.
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