Austin’s practice focuses on complex civil litigation cases, such as mass torts and class actions, as well as insurer bad faith and fraud, catastrophic personal injury, product liability, and wrongful death cases. Austin is counsel in several consumer protection class actions pending across the country, including cases involving data breaches, violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and other statutory violations.
Austin grew up in Florence, AL. He attended college at the University of Alabama on a Presidential scholarship, where he graduated magna cum laude with honors. Austin then earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Alabama. While in law school, Austin practiced law in the school’s Civil Law Clinic and won his first jury trial as a third-year student.
Austin began working as a law clerk for Pittman, Dutton, Hellums, Bradley, and Mann in 2013, and was made an attorney with the firm upon being admitted to practice law in 2015.
• Recovered $700,000 for his client in an insurer bad faith case after the insurance company failed to pay benefits on an occupational accident insurance policy.
• Recovered $300,000 for his client in a personal injury case related to a car crash.
• Recovered $300,000 for his clients in an environmental contamination nuisance case.
• Appointed settlement class counsel in a $300,000 data breach class action settlement.
• Recovered $180,000 for his client in a personal injury premises liability case.
• Recovered $150,000 for his client in an insurer bad faith and fraud case after the insurance company failed to pay benefits on a homeowner’s insurance policy.
• Recovered $140,000 for his client in an insurer fraud case related to a health insurance policy.
• Recovered $120,000 for his client in an environmental contamination nuisance case.
• Recovered $95,000 for his client in a personal injury case related to a bicycle crash.
• Has the 11th Circuit Become Consumer Friendly? Law360.com; November 8, 2018.
• Latest Developments on Article III Standing for Class Representatives In the 11th Circuit; Class Actions and Business Litigation CLE; Cumberland School of Law; November 20, 2018.
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