Phil Butler was a partner before retiring at Bradley. He practiced in the area of civil litigation since 1971. He was lead chair in defending over 100 jury trials in the most difficult and challenging forums in the state of Alabama.

Phil's trial experience included such areas as products liability, reinsurance disputes between insurance carriers, insurance fraud and bad faith, wrongful death actions, motor vehicle accidents, aviation crashes, pharmaceutical mass tort litigation, construction disputes and eminent domain.

Phil became heavily involved in the defense of pharmaceutical products liability actions, generally for medications which have been removed from the market. He served as lead chair trial counsel for many of these cases and also served on national expert witness committees for two major pharmaceutical companies.

For the past 20 years, much of Phil's practice involved direct action, insurance fraud and bad faith actions. His work in these areas was as lead counsel for both trials and appeals. Due to the popularity of interest-sensitive "vanishing premium" litigation and his experience in working with actuaries, Phil not only handled these cases as lead chair but often consulted with other insurance defense counsel in the preparation of actuarial testimony and strategy for trials. Additionally, he was involved in the defense of pharmaceutical marketing and pricing litigation.

Bar Admissions

• Alabama, 1971

• United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
• United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama
• United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
• United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama

Education

• University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 1971, Phi Delta Phi
• University of Alabama, A.B., 1968