Roper Elrod

Non-Litigation Manager and Personal Injury Attorney at Wettermark Keith Personal Injury Lawyers
Birmingham, AL

About Roper Elrod

Roper Elrod has managed Wettermark Keith's non-litigation practice since 2016, steering injured clients' cases through the pre-litigation process, where his undergraduate training in biology helps him untangle the medical evidence at the heart of injury claims. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Alabama in 2006, took his J.D. from the university's law school in 2010, and clerked for Judge Glenn Thompson in Morgan County before private practice. He is admitted in Alabama and Tennessee, and Super Lawyers listed him as a Mid-South Rising Star in 2024.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Wettermark Keith Personal Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to Wettermark Keith Personal Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$5 millionVerdictTop 20 in Tennessee · #8

A Shelby County jury found Norfolk Southern 100 percent at fault after veteran conductor Thomas David Jordan was struck by a passing BNSF train while working between dangerously close tracks in South Memphis, awarding $5 million under the Federal Employers' Liability Act. Wettermark Keith co-founder Chris Keith was counsel of record for Jordan, and the Tennessee Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment entered on the verdict in 2009.

Circuit Court of Shelby County (Memphis), Tennessee · 2006Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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