Clay Barnett joined the Firm in May of 2007 as an Associate in our Consumer Fraud Section. Clay is a member of the Average Wholesale Pricing (AWP) trial team seeking to recover millions of dollars the State of Alabama lost due to the fraudulent conduct of seventy-two influential pharmaceutical companies. The pricing scheme caused the State of Alabama to drastically overpay for Medicaid prescription drugs, thereby wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. The AWP trial recently team secured a $215 million verdict against AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals and is currently preparing for trial settings with GSK, Novartis, and Bristol Myers Squibb. The Firm also represents five other similarly defrauded states, who grossly overpaid for prescription drugs, after relying upon false and inflated prices reported by the pharmaceutical companies.

Prior to joining the Firm, Clay served as an Assistant Attorney General, practicing under both Bill Pryor and Troy King. During his time at the Attorney General's Office, he worked in three different capacities. He practiced briefly as an appellate attorney before transferring into the Attorney General's Criminal Trials Division, where he prosecuted a wide variety of cases across the State of Alabama. Clay built an extensive trial resume, prosecuting both jury and non-jury cases with offenses ranging from theft to Capital Murder.

Clay transferred to the Attorney General's White Collar / Public Corruption Division in June of 2005, providing him an excellent training ground for his current duties as a Fraud Attorney. Specifically, he fought on behalf of victims to bring to justice those individuals who had defrauded their fellow citizens. Clay prosecuted numerous public officials who inappropriately used their offices for personal gain, and deprived Alabama's citizens of their right to honest government.

In 2006, the Department of Justice appointed Clay as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. Following his appointment, Clay and his fellow prosecution team members tried and convicted three high profile defendants in a widely followed public corruption trial in the Federal District Court in Mobile, Alabama.

Clay is a 2001 graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law. In the year following his graduation, Clay clerked for Mobile County Circuit Judge James C. Wood.

In addition to attending Law School at UA, Clay attended undergraduate school at the University, where he received his B.S in Marketing in 1997.

As a Chairman of the local United Way Attorney Division for 2008, Clay is coordinating this year's fundraising efforts for all attorneys in the Montgomery area. In addition to his work for the United Way, Clay has served his community for the last five years by coaching local high school mock trial teams in the YMCA Annual High School Mock Trial Competition. In 2006, Clay coached Alabama's State team and took his students to the National High School Mock Trial Competition in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Clay is a member of Saint John's Episcopal Church located in downtown Montgomery.