L. Chris Stewart
Nationally recognized trial attorney based in Atlanta. Lead Counsel in some of the most significant civil litigation and wrongful death cases in modern American legal history.
The lawyer in the cases that shaped decades
Chris Stewart has represented families and victims in some of the most consequential civil-rights, wrongful-death, and catastrophic-injury matters in recent U.S. history, including the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Walter Scott, Rayshard Brooks, and Alton Sterling, as well as victims of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, the BioLab chemical fire class action in Conyers, Georgia, and the Boeing 737 Max plane crash. His work spans civil litigation, mass-tort and environmental litigation, transportation disasters, premises liability, and corporate-negligence cases that have driven national conversations about institutional responsibility.
Chris has also built a reputation for record-setting work in sexual-assault and institutional-liability litigation, including the first $1 billion verdict in U.S. history in a sexual-assault case — a landmark result that reshaped how sexual assault cases are valued by corporations.
A go-to voice for major legal news
Chris brings a rare combination of national case experience, courtroom credibility, and plainspoken communication. He explains civil-rights claims, wrongful-death damages, settlement pressure, and trial strategy in ways audiences can follow — without losing the human stakes that make these stories matter.
He has been featured across national media including CNN, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, Fox News, The New York Times, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Forbes, and countless international media, providing analysis on breaking developments in high-profile civil and criminal cases.
Atlanta-based, nationally engaged
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Chris leads a high-stakes trial practice across civil rights, catastrophic injury, mass tort, and corporate-negligence cases. He is available for breaking-news commentary, in-depth case analysis, and longer-form interviews on civil rights, civil litigation, wrongful death, transportation and industrial disasters, premises liability, sexual-assault litigation, and trial strategy.