With more than 20 years of experience, Clay Massey is a trial attorney for bet-the-company litigation and chair of the firm’s Toxic Torts Group. He focuses his practice on complex trial litigation in the areas of environmental and toxic torts and land use disputes with regulators. He has tried cases in some of the most hostile venues for corporate defendants and counsels companies facing mass toxic and environmental tort litigation on national defense strategies and coordination of national defense teams. He also has argued numerous complex toxic tort and land use disputes in state and federal appellate courts.
Clay is the immediate past co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Mass Torts/Toxic Torts Subcommittee after more than six years of distinguished service. He is recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America®, and was named a “Lawyer of the Year” in 2022 in Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants. He is recognized as one of the “500 Leading Litigators in America” by Lawdragon. He has served on LexisNexis’s National Advisory Board and as a committee chairman for the Atlanta Bar Association. He is a recipient of the Atlanta Bar Association’s Distinguished Service Award.
