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About Williams Hart & Boundas

Williams Hart & Boundas, LLP is a Houston-based personal injury and mass tort firm founded in 1985. The firm has represented clients in landmark cases including the $17.3 billion Texas tobacco settlement, the Phillips Petroleum explosion wrongful death litigation, and large-scale pharmaceutical MDLs involving Depakote, Roundup, and Taxotere.

Proven verdicts and settlements won by Williams Hart & Boundas

$15.3 billionSettlement

John Eddie Williams, Jr. served as one of five private attorneys retained by the State of Texas to sue the major tobacco companies, producing a $15.3 billion settlement in January 1998, the largest single-case settlement in U.S. history at the time.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas (Texarkana) · 1998Read the full story →
$46.5 millionVerdict

A St. Louis jury awarded $46.5 million to three plaintiffs who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after PCB exposure, delivering the first plaintiff verdict of its kind against Monsanto in the city.

Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri (Benito Walker, et al. v. Monsanto Company, et al., Case No. 1122-CC09621-01) · 2016Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$38 millionVerdict

A St. Louis jury returned a $38 million verdict against Abbott Laboratories for failing to adequately warn patients and physicians that Depakote, taken during pregnancy to control epilepsy, could cause severe birth defects including spina bifida.

Missouri Circuit Court, City of St. Louis (Barron v. Abbott, Case No. 1222-CC-0247901; affirmed Missouri Supreme Court No. SC96151, 2017) · 2015Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$12.45 millionVerdict

Jim Hart won a $12.45 million jury verdict for a Houston couple severely injured when a New Prime tractor-trailer rear-ended their sedan on I-45, though the Texas Supreme Court later reversed on procedural grounds and remanded for a new trial.

129th District Court of Harris County, Texas (Alonzo v. John, No. 14-20-00148-CV, affirmed Fourteenth Court of Appeals March 29, 2022) · 2019Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$3.5 millionVerdict

A Philadelphia jury returned a $3.5 million verdict for Kelly Martel in December 2023, finding Monsanto's Roundup weed killer caused her non-Hodgkin lymphoma after more than fifteen years of exposure. The Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed the judgment in full in 2025.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas (Mass Tort Program) · 2023Product LiabilityRead 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.

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$2.065 billion · Cobb County Jury Awards John Barnes $2.065 Billion in Roundup Cancer Trial
Abraham Watkins
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$32 million · Barn Door Collapse at Midtown Hilton Garden Inn Leads to $32 Million Verdict, Later Reduced to $12 Million
Sutliff & Stout
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$6.09 million · Wrongful Death Truck Case Settles for $6.09 Million, Ranked Ninth Among All Texas Settlements in 2019

Attorneys at Williams Hart & Boundas

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