Clay Barnett joined the Firm's Consumer Fraud Section in May of 2007. His practice focuses primarily on the Average Wholesale Price (AWP) litigation. Clay represents the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Kansas, Hawaii and Alaska in fraud actions filed against a long list of pharmaceutical companies.

Prior to joining the Firm, Clay served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alabama, practicing under both Bill Pryor and Troy King. 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. Clay built an extensive trial resume, prosecuting both jury and non-jury cases with offenses ranging from theft to Capital Murder.

Clay also served in the Attorney General's White Collar / Public Corruption Division, where he prosecuted numerous public officials who had wrongly used their offices for personal gain and deprived Alabama's citizens of their right to honest government.

In 2006, the United States 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.

Clay has served as chairman of the River Region United Way Attorney Campaign and currently serves on the board of directors of the Britton YMCA. Since 2004, Clay has coached various local high school mock trial teams in the Alabama YMCA High School Mock Trial Competition. In addition, Clay has taken two different Alabama state teams to the National High School Mock Trial Competition (2006 and 2010).

Clay is married to the former Elise Plauché Lirette of Houma, Louisiana. They are members of Saint John's Episcopal Church in downtown Montgomery.