John J. Givens is a trial lawyer with The Cochran Firm
– Dothan and a Dothan native. His practice focuses exclusively on plaintiff
civil litigation with a concentration in the areas of commercial motor vehicle litigation
and products liability litigations. John was the youngest lawyer in America to
receive a jury verdict of more than one million dollars on behalf of his
client, a verdict he obtained at age 26. In addition to individual incident
jury trials, John has served as a member of Bellwether trial teams on behalf of
plaintiffs in mass actions, including the C8 litigation against DuPont that
resulted in a $670.7 million-dollar settlement for the Plaintiffs after several
successful jury verdicts. John is licensed to practice law in the state of
Alabama and Florida and is admitted to practice in all Alabama and Florida
state courts as well as many federal courts around the nation.