Overview
David J. Hodge’s Madison County roots run deep.
He grew up on the family cotton farm that his father and grandfather
owned outside New Market, and it was there where he learned his first
lessons about the value of hard work. Throughout his career, David Hodge has focused his practice on
products-liability cases and mass torts, but he also has a very strong
emphasis on small-business representation and has won several
significant verdicts for these clients.
Areas of Practice:
Products Liability
Mass Torts
Business
Admissions:
Alabama
Memberships:
Alabama State Bar Association’s Judicial Liaison Committee
Civil Rules Committee for the U.S. District for the Northern District of Alabama
Litigation Support Groups: American Association for Justice
(pediatric injuries in lawnmower accidents) and Chromated Copper
Arsenate (CCA) (in building materials)
Co-Chair of the Settlement Committee for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust Multidistrict Litigation
Biography
As an undergraduate at Samford University in Birmingham, David Hodge was active
on the debate team and knew that he wanted to become a lawyer. He
attended the University ofAlabama School of Law, where he was senior
editor of the Law Review, and graduated with honors in 2000.
After receiving his law degree, he clerked for Judge Inge P. Johnson in
the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama and then
practiced in a Birmingham law firm for 10 years. His desire to return
home to Madison County grew ever stronger, and in 2010 he came back to
launch his current practice.
Throughout his career, David Hodge has focused his practice on
products-liability cases and mass torts, but he also has a very strong
emphasis on small-business representation and has won several
significant verdicts for these clients. They include a $17.5 million
verdict for a timber company in a case involving fraudulent
representations about a faulty log skidder in 2009 and a $3.2-million
verdict in DeKalb County in 2012 for a pig farmer who had received
pneumonia-afflicted pigs from a livestock broker.
David Hodge’s wife, Laura Hodge, is a prosecutor in the Northern Alabama
U.S. District Attorney’s office, and they both try to carve out as much
time as possible to spend with their two daughters and activities as
members of First United Methodist Church.
An avid outdoorsman, Hodge particularly enjoys quail hunting and fly fishing.
Experience
In all, David Hodge has won more than $30 million in verdicts and settlements
for his clients and he’s done so in state and federal courts all over
the U.S., including California, Oklahoma, Illinois, New York, Tennessee,
Louisiana, Georgia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
His practice is busy, but he manages to apply his commitment to justice
in other ways as well. He is a frequent speaker at legal seminars and
has also created two litigation support groups for the American
Association for Justice, one dealing with lawnmower accidents and the
other with use of Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA) in building
materials.
David Hodge has been appointed to serve as Co-Chair of the Settlement Committee that has been organized in Birmingham as part of Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust Litigation.
In 2013, Hodge gained the distinction of being named one of the 50 top
lawyers in Alabama by SuperLawyers Magazine and one of the top 100
Alabama trial lawyers by the National Trial Lawyers organization.