Lawyer Profile
David S. Cain Jr.
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Recognized Since:2013
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Recognized in:Medical Malpractice Law - PlaintiffsPersonal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
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Law School:The University of Alabama
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Website:
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Location:1601 Dauphin StreetP.O. Box 66705Mobile, AL 36660-1705
Mr. Cain has been lead and co-lead counsel in numerous cases with multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements. His practice areas include eighteen-wheeler trucking accidents, automobile accidents, fires and explosions, product defects/failures, industrial accidents, medical malpractice, insurance fraud/bad faith, and injuries invoking admiralty and maritime law.
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Lawyer Bio
Education:
- The University of Alabama , J.D., graduated 2003
- Auburn University, BS, graduated 1998
Bar Admissions:
- Alabama, Alabama State Bar Association
Affiliations:
- Alabama Association for Justice - Member, Board of Governors, 2004 -- ; Emerging Leaders Executive Committee
- Alabama State Bar - Member, Young Lawyers Executive Committee
- Attorney's Information Exchange Group (AIEG) - Member
- Mobile Bar Association - Member, Diversity Task Force
- Mobile Bar Association - Member, Professionalism Committee
- Southern Trial Lawyers Association - Member
- The American Association for Justice - Member
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:
- Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Awards:
- Listed, Benchmark Plaintiff
- Listed, Benchmark Litigation
- Mobile's Top Forty Under 40, 2010
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Rating - Martindale Hubbell
- Certified Civil Trial Specialist, National Board of Trial Advocacy
- Member, American Board of Trial Advocates
- Listed, Super Lawyers
- Listed, Chambers USA
- The National Trial Lawyers, "Top 100 Trial Lawyer"
Additional Information:
Recognition & Awards
- Certified Civil Trial Specialist, National Board of Trial Advocacy
- Member, American Board of Trial Advocates
- Admitted to practice in all Alabama state and federal courts, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court
- Benchmark Plaintiff named him a "Litigation Star" in its national rankings of personal injury attorneys and for Alabama (2013-present)
- Listed in Benchmark Litigation as a "Litigation Star" in its Alabama rankings of personal injury attorneys (2016)
- Benchmark Litigation named him a "Future Star" in its rankings of Alabama attorneys (2014-2015)
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America® (2013-present)
- Listed in Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top plaintiff attorneys in Alabama (2013-present)
- Listed in Super Lawyers magazine as one of Alabama's Rising Stars (2010-2012)
- Recognized by The National Trial Lawyers as a "Top 100 Trial Lawyer"
- Recognized as one of Mobile's "Forty Under 40" (2010)
- AV® Preeminent™ 4.9/5.0 Peer Rating
- Hugo Black Scholar
- Selected into the Order of the Coif
- Selected into the Order of the Barristers
- Finalist in the John A. Campbell Moot Court Competition, receiving the Reuben H. Wright award for best advocate
- Listed in Chambers USA
Firm Details
Cunningham Bounds, LLC
Lawyer Case History
Krantz v. A.O. Smith | Baldwin County, Alabama | Case No. CB-05-794
Cunningham Bounds obtained a $50 million verdict for the family of a man who suffered severe burns and died four days later after a natural-gas water heater exploded while he was trying to light the pilot light.
Pettaway v. Coastal Anesthesia, P.C., et al. | Mobile County, Alabama | Case No. CV-07-901577
The attorneys of Cunningham Bounds achieved a $20 million jury verdict for family of woman who died after her anesthesia care team failed to follow the accepted standards of care in administering her anesthesia.
Tyler v. Mobile Infirmary Association | Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court | Civil Action No. CV-00-2202
Cunningham Bounds obtained a $5.5 million verdict for the estate of a woman who died of acute mesenteric ischemia due to the failure of the hospital staff to accurately monitor and report the patient's condition to treating doctors.
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