Watts Law Firm LLP
811 Barton Springs Road #725
Austin, TX 78704
(512) 479-0500
mikal@wattsllp.comwww.wattstrialfirm.com/Mikal Watts have been a licensed attorney in Texas since November of 1989, and have been practicing law for more than 36 years, focused on product liability law, primarily leading torts in multi-district litigations (MDLs) or consolidated state court litigations.
In more than 35 years of practicing law, Mikal Watts has led some of the largest complex tort litigations in this country, trying many of the first in the country verdicts for plaintiffs therein - the first trial in the Ford/Firestone tire lawsuit (see MDL 1373); the first Rezulin plaintiffs verdict; the only plaintiffs verdict in Sulzer hip implants; trial of first Baycol case; trial of first welding rods case during MDL 1525; trial of two bellwether cases during Vioxx; the only Plaintiffs verdict during Levaquin, and the first Zantac case in the country. In total, Wattss jury verdicts exceed $1.6 billion.
In addition, Wattss settlements for his firms clients exceed $11 billion, though courts have also appointed Watts as Plaintiffs Settlement Counsel in various mass tort cases: JCCP 4955 (California North Bay & Camp wildfires) ($13.5 billion settlement); MDL 2885 (3M Earplugs) ($6.1 billion settlement), Tx-MDL No. 18-0358 (Opioids) ($2.78 billion in settlements), MDL 2591 (Syngenta corn ($1.5 billion settlement).
Watts is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, is board-certified in personal injury law, serves on the executive committee of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and the prestigious Inner Circle of Advocates.
