1890
G. R. Harsh founds the forerunner of Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton
The History of Hare Wynn
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1892
Lexington Standard newspaper in Kentucky begins publication.
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1900
Cornerstone laid for new state capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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1906
Diamonds discovered in Pike County, Arkansas – the first such deposit in the country.
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1908
College of Law established at State University of Kentucky.
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1915
State Capitol building completed in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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1925
Arkansas Supreme Court upholds women’s right to vote.
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1930
Francis Hare, Sr. graduates from University of Alabama School of Law and joins the Harsh firm.
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1931
Hattie Caraway, from Arkansas, becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
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1933
Tennessee Valley Authority created to develop resources of poor Appalachian areas in Alabama and Kentucky.
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1935
Keeneland Race Course opens in Lexington, Kentucky.
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1944
J. William Fulbright is elected as United States Senator from Arkansas.
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1946
F. W. Woolworth constructed in Kentucky.
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1949
Firm founder, Francis H. Hare,Sr., is elected President of the Alabama State Bar.
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1950
Francis H. Hare, Sr., helps found the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association.
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1954
Hare Wynn founder, Francis H, Hare, Sr., is elected President of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association.
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1954
Martin Luther King, Jr., is installed as minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
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1954
A twelve-year-old Louisville child, then known as Cassius Clay, takes his first boxing lessons, the first step on a journey that would take him to a legendary boxing career.
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1957
The Little Rock school desegregation case brings international attention to the American civil rights movement.
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1958
Jupiter rocket, built in Huntsville, Alabama, is launched as America places its first satellite in orbit around Earth.
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1961
Harper Lee of Monroeville, Alabama, wins the Pulitzer Prize for To Kill a Mockingbird.
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1964
Kentucky’s Colonel Harland Sanders sold his fried chicken business.
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1965
Hare Wynn partner, Neal C. Newell, is elected President of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, known today as The Alabama Association for Justice.
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1965
Selma to Montgomery March in Alabama.
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1970
Hare Wynn successfully represents Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant in a libel suit against The Saturday Evening Post.
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1970
The firm represents plaintiffs in the landmark Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company case pertaining to fuel system integrity.
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1971
Hare Wynn’s Francis H. Hare, Jr., begins his term as President of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, forerunner of the Alabama Association for Justice.
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1974
Hank Aaron, from Mobile, Alabama, breaks Babe Ruth’s home run record.
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1976
Lexington Center and Rupp Arena open in Kentucky.
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1979
Hare Wynn partner, Alex Newton, is elected President of the International Society of Barristers.
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1980
Hare Wynn is one of twelve firms representing plaintiffs in national litigation regarding complications caused by Swine Flu vaccinations.
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1984
Hare Wynn partner, Alva C. Caine, is elected as President of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, now known as the Alabama Association for Justice.
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1989
Hare Wynn’s Alva C. Caine, is elected to serve as President of the Alabama State Bar.
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1990
The firm represents family members of victims who perished in the TWA-800 crash. The resulting investigation was one of the longest in aviation history.
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1991
Last issue of the Arkansas Gazette, the “oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi.”
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1993
Mercedes-Benz announces it will build its first automobile assembly plant in North America, in Vance, Alabama.
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1994
Hare Wynn partner, John W. Haley, becomes the fifth partner from Hare Wynn elected to serve as President of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, now known as the Alabama Association for Justice.
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2000
Hare Wynn serves as national co-lead counsel in the Amtrak “Sunset Limited” case, the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak’s history.
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2000
In 1992, when the silicone gel breast implant cases in the federal court system were consolidated into a single multi-district proceeding, one of the firm’s members was appointed co-liaison counsel. Liaison counsel is charged with: facilitating interface between the court and the attorneys representing breast implant plaintiffs nationwide; bringing select motions to the court’s attention, and advising the public on the status of the litigation – among other responsibilities.
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2005
Hare Wynn partner, Scott A. Powell, is elected to serve as President of the Alabama Association for Justice.
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2006
Hare Wynn’s Ralph D. Cook, becomes the eighth firm attorney to serve as President of the Alabama Association for Justice.
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2006
Hare Wynn partner, Scott Powell, is elected President of the International Society of Barristers.
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2008
Hare Wynn’s John Haley settles for $133 million against UBS in Tucker v. Scrushy.
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2009
Scott Powell and Don McKenna named as 2009 False Claims Act Lawyers of the Year by Taxpayer’s Against Fraud Education Fund.
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2010
Francis H. Hare, Sr.,is inducted into the Alabama Lawyers’ Hall of Fame.
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2011
Hare Wynn’s $47,975,000 jury verdict in the Schafer v. Bayer CropScience case is recognized as one the Top 100 Verdicts in America in 2010 by Verdict Search.
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2011
Hare Wynn selected to The National Law Journal’s Plaintiffs’ Hot List, an award presented to only 20 firms in the entire country for exceptional work.
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2012
For the second consecutive year, a Hare Wynn jury verdict is recognized as one the Top 100 Verdicts in America in 2011 by Verdict Search and as listed in The National Law Journal.
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2012
Hare Wynn serves as co-lead in the largest False Claims Act case ever filed – U.S. ex rel. Johnson v. Shell, resulting in the company’s agreement to pay $110 million to resolve claims that it underpaid royalties due for oil produced on federal leases.
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2012
Hare Wynn obtains a $2.86 billion judgment in compensatory damages against Richard M. Scrushy, the largest judgment against an individual in history in any American jurisdiction.
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2012
Hare Wynn represents more than 2,500 rice farmers in a historic $750 million settlement against Bayer Cropscience.
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2013
Hare Wynn Selected for National Law Journal’s Plaintiffs Hot List Hall of Fame
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2013
Hare Wynn obtains a $40.25 million jury verdict in a wrongful death case in Jefferson County, Alabama.
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2013
Hare Wynn makes National Law Journal Top Verdict in America list.
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2013
Hare Wynn selected “Best Law Firm in America” by U. S. News and World Report.
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2014
Hughston Nichols Selected for Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum
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2014
Hare Wynn Selected to National Law Journal’s Elite Trial Lawyers List
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2014
Hare Wynn and Two Other Firms File Class Action Lawsuits in Syngenta Case
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2014
$25 Million Settlement in Kentucky Vioxx Case
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2014
$7.5 Million Jury Verdict in Alabama Medical Malpractice Case
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2014
$1.2 Million Settlement in Alabama Whistleblower Case
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2014
$500,000 Settlement in West Virginia Wrongful Death Case
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2014
$4 Million Jury Verdict in Alabama Medical Malpractice Case
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2014
Michael D. Ermert is elected as the ALAJ President
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2015
Fourteen Hare Wynn Lawyers Honored in the 2015 list of Super Lawyers
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2015
Hare Wynn Recovers $995,000 for Small Business Client
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2015
Alabama Supreme Court Affirms $15 Million Dram Shop Verdict
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2015
Hare Wynn Attorney Ralph Cook Elected Magic City Bar Association President
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2015
More than $20 million paid to clients in metal-on-metal settlements
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2016
Hare Wynn Attorney Ashley Peinhardt Selected for 2016 Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum
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2016
Hare Wynn ranked in US News and World Report as 2016 Best Law Firm in ten practice areas
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2016
Eleven Hare Wynn Attorneys Named as The Best Lawyers in America for 2016
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2016
Mike Ermert Elected to Alabama State Bar Board of Bar Commissioners.
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2016
$310-Millon Settlement Awarded In Fraud Class Action Against Caremark And AIG
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2016
Hare Wynn Attorneys Ashley Peinhardt and Tempe Smith Named B-Metro Magazine Top Women Lawyers of 2016
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Our Results
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$2,860,000,000
Securities Fraud
Hare Wynn obtains a $2.86 billion judgment in compensatory damages against Richard M. Scrushy, the largest judgment against an individual in history in any American jurisdiction....More
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$750,000,000
GMO Rice Contamination
Hare Wynn represents more than 2,500 rice farmers in a historic $750 million settlement against Bayer Cropscience....More
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$422,000,000
Whistleblower
Hare Wynn attorneys Scott Powell and Don McKenna represent one of four whistleblowers who brought False Claims Act suits against Novartis Pharmaceuticals for off-label marketing of Trileptal and paying illegal kickbacks to doctors in ass...More
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$410,000,000
Qui Tam
U.S. ex rel. Johnson v. Shell, resulting in the company’s agreement to pay $410 million to resolve claims that it underpaid royalties due for oil produced on federal leases...More
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$310,000,000
Corporate Fraud
In 2016, a team of Hare Wynn lawyers, including Scott Powell, John Haley, Bruce McKee, Ralph Cook, Brian Vines, and Tempe Smith secured a $310 million dollar settlement on behalf of a nationwide class of investors who had been defrauded...More
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$218,000,000
Syngenta GMO Corn
Scott Powell and three long-time colleagues are responsible for securing a $217.7 million dollar verdict on behalf of a class of more than 7,000 Kansas farmers. This was the first of a number of trials against Syngent....More
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$133,000,000
Securities Fraud
This was a shareholder derivative suit on behalf of HealthSouth Corporation. It alleged that UBS Securities knew about Richard Scrushy’s accounting frauds at HealthSouth, yet helped Scrushy to continue to make acquisitions and to c...More
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$40,250,000
Wrongful Death
Hare Wynn has obtained a $40.25 million jury verdict in Jefferson County, Alabama, in a case involving the death of Derric Rush, a Hoover resident killed on his way home from Wednesday night service at the church where he worked....More
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$40,000,000
Whistleblower
Healthways Inc. will pay $40 million to end a lawsuit alleging the company’s Diabetes Treatment Center of America received kickbacks for paying doctors to send their patients to hospitals that are the unit’s clients....More
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$37,500,000
Death of a Police Officer
Hare Wynn lawyers, Matt Minner and Jamie Moncus, obtained a large punitive damages verdict from a Madison County jury in a case involving the death of a Huntsville Police Officer. The family of slain Officer, Daniel Golden, bro...More
Complex Litigation
Members of Hare Wynn have been rated by their peers as top lawyers in: “Bet the Company” litigation; commercial litigation; securities litigation; business litigation; aviation litigation; employment litigation; whistleblower litigation; products liability; medical negligence; and personal injury litigation.
The firm has been hired by State Attorneys General to represent States against some of the world’s most powerful pharmaceutical companies. Hare Wynn is also proud to have recovered more than $1 billion for the United States of America by representing whistleblowers who exposed and stopped those who would steal from American taxpayers. As part of the firm’s commitment to help clients expose and combat fraud, Hare Wynn obtained a $2.8 billion trial judgment and affirmance on appeal, against former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy in a shareholder derivative suit that returned ill-gotten gains to the company.
While we are honored to represent all our clients, we are particularly proud to represent the American farmer. Recently, the Firm represented over 2,500 rice farmers whose crops were contaminated and foreign markets closed when Bayer CropScience allowed the escape of experimental genetically modified rice. The firm also represented a large group of Arkansas hog farmers in a business dispute with a large pork processing company.
Don’t Just Take Our Word
Hare Wynn’s lawyers have consistently been recognized by numerous national organizations, publications and their peers as being among the most successful and experienced courtroom lawyers in the country.
The National Law Journal judged us to be “at the cutting edge of plaintiffs’ work.”
- U.S. News & World Report Best Law Firms in America
- National Law Journal, Plaintiff’s Hot List
- The Best Lawyers in America
- Law Dragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America
- American College of Trial Lawyers
- International Society of Barristers
- American Board of Trial Advocates
- Birmingham Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Birmingham
- Super Lawyers
- Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated
- Chambers USA – Ranking of Leading Firms and Lawyers in America
- Benchmark Litigation – America’s Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys
Hare Wynn Cares About You
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Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, LLP
If you want great service from great people, this is the place to go. - I.D.
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Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, LLP
They are amazing and fight for you like you're family. - V.M.
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Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, LLP
Totally outstanding lawyer at an equally outstanding firm! - J.M.
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Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, LLP
We are at peace with the verdict and totally endorse this outstanding law firm. - S.B.
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Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, LLP
They made it so much easier. - D.S
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Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, LLP
I absolutely loved the atmosphere there. - J.V.