Firm In The News

BIG News! Michael Eldridge & John Spade have worked so hard over the years to ensure our clients are compensated for their injuries. We look forward to the impact we know they will have on HWC and our clients as PARTNERS in the firm! Congrats HWC Partner Michael Eldridge & HWC Partner John Spade!! We are so proud of you both.

SETTLEMENT ALERT: HWC Partner Carter Clay & HWC Attorney John Spade pursued and resolved complex product liability and general negligence claims against both the manufacturer and retailer of a binary exploding target. The claims against the manufacturer, Jerent Enterprises, LLC d/b/a Sonic Boom Exploding Targets, resolved for $3 million. The claims against the retailer resolved for a confidential amount.

Veteran newscaster and businessman Art Franklin is joining Hollis Wright's legal information show, The Attorneys, as the host. Managing Partner Josh Wright said, "We are truly excited to welcome Art to The Attorneys family, as well as to see how he will be able to help us better accomplish our goal of ensuring legal advice and direction is readily available to every citizen in Alabama." Tune in to The Attorneys every Sunday night after the late news on WVTM-13.

We are so proud of HWC Managing Partner Josh Wright for being named to the Birmingham Business Journal's Best of the Bar list. This year's winners were selected based on their status within their practice group, their tangible accomplishments, their impact on their firms and their impact on Birmingham and its legal community, among other factors. #YourResultMatters

HWC Attorneys John Spade and Craig Shirley secured a $125,000 verdict for our client, Rickey Bullington, who was injured through no fault of his own. The case was tried directly against State Farm Insurance who disputed whether Rickey was injured in the collision. A Shelby County jury agreed that Mr. Bullington was permanently injured and entitled to recover underinsured motorist benefits. This result is the largest uninsured/underinsured motorist verdict in Shelby County in the last 15 years. At Hollis Wright #YourResultMatters

HWC Partner Carter Clay (left) and HWC Attorney Michael Eldridge (right) secured a $1 million jury verdict for our client Rachel Releford who was injured by a drunk driver. A Jefferson County jury in Bessemer concluded that the drunk driver was responsible for the collision and Mrs. Releford's injuries. At Hollis Wright #YourResultMatters

Thanks to all of our clients, our attorney friends, our show fans, and many more, we are celebrating our 20th anniversary! We are incredibly thankful for the opportunity we have had over the last 20 years to ensure that those who are injured in accidents through no fault of their own are compensated for their injuries and losses.

Call us with all of your personal injury, product liability, wrongful death, and workers' compensation needs! #YourResultmatters

Pictured: Founding attorneys Andy Hollis (retired) and HWC Managing Partner Josh Wright in the early days of the firm.

Congrats to Managing Partner Josh Wright and Attorney John Spade for being named to the 2022 Best Lawyer® list! Recognition by Best Lawyers® is based solely on peer review. The methodology is designed to capture the opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area.

We think all of our attorneys are super lawyers. But Managing Partner Josh Wright, Partner Carter Clay, and Attorney Michael Eldridge got an official recognition in 2020. Super Lawyers selects attorneys using a patented multi-phase selection process. Peer nominations and evaluations are combined with independent research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis.
Josh has been on the Super Lawyer list 13 years, Carter 7 years, and Mike has been a "Rising Star" for three years.

We are so proud of HWC Attorney John Spade for receiving The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 Under 40 distinction! The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 under 40 is a professional organization comprised of America's top young trial attorneys. Membership into The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 under 40 is by invitation only, and is extended exclusively to those individuals who meet stringent qualifications and specialize in the legal practice of criminal defense or civil plaintiff.

October 2020

Allwin E. Horn, IV, head of the workers' compensation department at Hollis Wright, was a co-chair this month for the Annual Workers' Compensation Seminar hosted by the Alabama Association for Justice. Attorneys from throughout the state participated in the webinar entitled "Old Laws-New Trends."

May, 2020

We are so proud of the leadership at Hollis Wright. Our partners (pictured left to right) Managing Partner Josh Wright, Partner Tyler Vail, Partner Bobby Bell, and Partner Carter Clay were all named to B-Metro's list of Top Attorneys in 2020.

HWCV Managing Partner recently coached his 50th and last youth sports team, a hobby he has passionately pursued over the last 13 years. Now that his third child will be on school-coached teams, Josh will have to find another hobby to occupy his time when he isn't practicing law or providing the public with legal information through the firm's show or phone banks. Pictured: Josh (far left) with his 50th team coached, a youth basketball team, which he was able to take to the Mountain Brook Recreation Basketball Championship. The team lost in OT, but ended Josh's youth coaching career in dramatic fashion.

December, 2019

Managing Partner Josh Wright has been named among America's Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys® for 2019. Selection is by invitation only and is reserved to identify the nation's most exceptional litigators for high-value personal injury, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, product liability, and medical malpractice matters. Only the top 100 qualifying attorneys in each state receive this honor. With these extremely high standards, less than one-half percent (0.5%) of active attorneys in the United States will receive this honor.

November, 2019

We are so proud of Managing Partner Josh Wright and Associate Attorney Michael Eldridge for being recognized in the Super Lawyers selection process. This is Josh's 12th year to be recognized. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The patented selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.

October, 2019

$210,000 JURY VERDICT! Congratulations to HWCV Partner Carter Clay and Associate Drew McNutt who obtained a $210,000 jury verdict in Tuscaloosa County in October 2019 on behalf of a Hollis Wright client who sustained injuries in a motor vehicle accident. #ResultsMatter

October, 2019

We are so proud of Hollis Wright Associate Attorney Michael Eldridge, who is also a coach for the Cumberland School of Law's National Trial Team. Michael and his team traveled to Syracuse, New York, where they competed in the Syracuse National Trial Competition. Congratulations to Michael (pictured far right) and his team members, John Banks, Jazzell Carter, Isabella Colombo, and Alex Messmore, who finished as finalists after defeating teams from Temple University, Syracuse University, South Texas, and Brooklyn Law School. #ResultsMatter in all we do.

September, 2019

CASE UPDATE: Hollis Wright Managing Partner Josh Wright settled a case for an undisclosed amount for his clients (seven ladies) who were carbon monoxide poisoned while staying at the Lake Guntersville State Park Lodge in 2016. "Our intent was to find out what caused the poisoning, why there were no working carbon monoxide detectors at the Lodge and make sure this event never happens again at any State park," said Josh Wright, who represents the visitor. "We are pleased to have raised awareness as to the importance of working carbon monoxide detectors."

August, 2019

Hollis Wright Associate Attorneys John Spade and Michael Eldridge recently obtained a $92,500 jury verdict in Lee County, Alabama, related to a motor vehicle collision caused by a distracted driver on US-280 near Smith Station.

August, 2019

Hollis Wright is so proud that E.P. (pictured), who sustained a devastating brain injury in an automobile accident involving a tractor-trailer injury was able to start school this month. Several months back, attorneys Carter Clay and Drew McNutt resolved a lawsuit on behalf of this precious child, after two plus years of hard-fought litigation. The case settled just a few weeks prior to trial.

June, 2019

We are proud to announce that HWCV Partner Carter Clay settled a medical malpractice case on behalf of J.L. (pictured with his grandson). During J.L.'s hospitalization following heart surgery, he was administered the wrong medication, which caused him to sustain a stroke. The case was resolved for a confidential amount. We are thankful to have had the opportunity to help J.L. and wish him and his family the very best.

May, 2019

Hollis, Wright & Clay, P.C. is proud to announce that Managing Partner Josh Wright has been selected among America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators for 2019. Selection to America’s Top High Stakes Litigators is by invitation only and is reserved to identify the nation’s most exceptional trial attorneys in high value, high stakes legal matters.

To be considered for selection, an attorney must have litigated a matter (1) with at least $2,000,000 in alleged damages at stake or (2) with the fate of a business worth at least $2,000,000 at stake. These minimum qualifications are required for initial consideration. Thereafter, candidates are carefully screened through comprehensive Qualitative Comparative Analysis based on a broad array of criteria, including the candidate’s professional experience, litigation experience, significant case results, representative high stakes matters, peer reputation, and community impact in order to rank the candidates throughout the state.

Only the top 100 qualifying attorneys in each state will receive this honor and be selected for membership among America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators. With these extremely high standards for selection, less than one-half percent (0.05%) of active attorneys in the United States will receive this honor—truly the most exclusive and elite level of attorneys in the community.

For more information about America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators or the selection process, you can visit www.Top100HighStakesLitigators.com.

April, 2019

Hollis, Wright & Clay, P.C. is proud to announce that HWCV Partner Carter Clay recently resolved a motor vehicle accident claim on behalf of his client, D.S.M. (pictured) D.S.M. was in a severe collision with a commercial bus while operating his motorcycle. In addition to a severe hand injury, D.S.M. sustained several rib fractures as well as a fracture to his left leg. On behalf of the law firm, we wish D.S.M. the best and are happy we were able to help him.

February, 2019

Hollis, Wright & Clay, P.C. is pleased to announce that Drew McNutt and Carter Clay recently reached a confidential resolution to a medical malpractice claim on behalf of client K.F. She was six months old when she was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor, which required her to undergo chemotherapy. Following her first round of chemotherapy, K.F. had a severe, adverse reaction and was hospitalized for several days. During the hospitalization, it was discovered that she had received double the prescribed dosage of chemotherapy. Medical malpractice claims were pursued against various healthcare providers involved in the improper administration of chemotherapy.

November, 2018

Hollis Wright filed a case November 28, 2018, in Calhoun County, Alabama against Teague VIP Express, an Alabama-based commercial bus company. Teague VIP was operating the commercial bus involved in the deadly bus accident in DeSoto County, Mississippi, that claimed the lives of two individuals and injured more than 40 others in early November 2018. As alleged in the Complaint filed today by George and Hassie Nance, Teague VIP employed a commercial driver that was both unskilled and incapable of operating the commercial bus at the time of the accident.

As noted by Josh Wright, managing partner at Hollis Wright who filed the case, "this commercial carrier has a long history of maintenance issues that call into question whether the bus should have been on the road on November 14, 2018. Our goal in filing this case is to compensate those who were injured by this terrible accident and to send a message to this carrier, and others similarly situated, that you are transporting cargo that truly matters: real people with lives who trusted that they would be delivered to their destination safely, and delivered by a driver that was capable of operating a commercial bus in the first place."

The defendants will have 30 days to respond to the lawsuit after they are served, which will happen in the coming weeks. "We will get to the bottom of why this driver was overdriving the weather conditions, both through witnesses and forensics", stated Wright. "This accident should never have happened."

November, 2018

We are so proud of HWCV Managing Partner Josh Wright and HWCV Associate Attorney Michael Eldridge for being rated in 2018 by Mid-South Super Lawyers. Super Lawyers recognizes attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their legal practice. The patented selection is rigorous and results in third-party validation of professional accomplishments. This is Josh Wright's 10th year to be a Super Lawyers-rated attorney. Michael Eldridge has been recognized as a Mid-South Super Lawyers Rising Star. We are so proud!

November, 2018

Hollis Wright is proud to announce that attorneys Carter Clay and Drew McNutt recently resolved a lawsuit on behalf of this precious child, E.P. (pictured). E.P. sustained a devastating brain injury in an automobile accident involving a tractor-trailer. After two plus years of hard-fought litigation, the case settled just a few weeks prior to trial.

September, 2018

Hollis, Wright & Clay, P.C. Managing Partner Josh Wright announced recently the addition of A. Paige Caraway to the firm. Ms. Caraway is an associate attorney and will be working in the growing mass torts department.

"We are so honored to welcome Paige Caraway to our team," said Wright. "She will enhance and complement our thriving mass torts department that represents thousands of clients throughout the country who have been injured through no fault of their own by defective products and pharmaceuticals. Ms. Caraway will be an asset to our team as we continue to hold companies responsible for the products and medications they put on the market, as well as ensure victims receive just compensation."

January, 2018

Hollis, Wright & Clay, P.C. Managing Partner Josh Wright recently announced the addition of three attorneys to the law firm.

• Hon. Allwin E. Horn, III, of counsel, Retired Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge. His specialties include insurance litigation, general commercial liability litigation, construction accident litigation and tractor trailer litigation.
• Allwin E. Horn, IV, of counsel, specializing in workers' compensation, construction accident claims, heavy equipment accidents, industrial accidents, tractor trailer, and automobile accidents and loading and unloading accidents.
• Michael Eldridge, associate attorney, will be primarily handling personal injury and mass tort cases.

"We are so honored to welcome Judge Horn, Allwin Horn, and Michael Eldridge to our team. These fine attorneys will only enhance our service to clients and to the mission we already have in place-to level the playing field for all victims injured through no fault of their own, either through an accident or via a defective product or medication," said Wright.

November 2017

Hollis Wright is so excited to have been able to give away-through our television show, The Attorneys, and through our Facebook page- two sets of two lower-level tickets to the Alabama vs. Auburn game. Two lucky Facebook and show fans were able to enjoy with a guest the November 25 game in Jordan-Hare Stadium with more than 87,000 other college football fans. Congrats to Nancy Barron (pictured) and Leslie Cooper!

We are so proud of Managing Partner Josh Wright and Senior Partner Carter Clay for being rated in 2017 by Super Lawyers. Please join us in congratulating them both! Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The patented selection process includes independent research, peer nominations, and peer evaluations. This is Josh Wright's tenth year to be rated

August, 2017

Hollis, Wright & Clay, P.C. Managing Partner Josh Wright announced on August 24, 2017 that the firm signed a new deal with WVTM-13, ensuring the popular legal advice show, The Attorneys, will continue to be on WVTM-13 through 2018. The Attorneys each week features an attorney from Hollis Wright speaking with a guest attorney regarding varying legal topics. The public can call in, speak to an actual attorney on the phone, and receive free legal advice. The show has become hugely popular, as Hollis Wright attorneys take a multitude of calls, texts and emails each Sunday night. The show airs after the late news on Sunday nights at 10:35 p.m.

January, 2017

The firm is proud to announce that effective immediately Bobby Bell has been named Partner. Bobby has been an associate with the firm since 2008 and has been leading our Mass Tort department since 2010.