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About Cesar Tavares
Cesar Tavares was born in Mexico City and immigrated to the United States as a young child, becoming the first person in his family to graduate from college. He earned an associate's degree from Utah Valley University with high honors, a B.A. from Brigham Young University cum laude, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School cum laude in 2009. He has been with Williams Hart & Boundas since 2017, focusing on personal injury, product liability, trucking litigation, and maritime and Jones Act cases. He has secured over a dozen jury verdicts exceeding $1 million, two Top 10 Verdicts in Texas in a single year, and dozens of seven- and eight-figure settlements totaling over $100 million in client recoveries.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Williams Hart & Boundas
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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.
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.
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.
A federal jury in East St. Louis found in June 2017 that Abbott Laboratories failed to warn a prescribing doctor about the risk of severe birth defects from Depakote. It awarded $15 million in compensatory damages to a 10-year-old boy born with spina bifida after his mother took the drug during pregnancy. The jury declined to award punitive damages.
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.
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