M. Stephen Dampier is the founder of The Dampier Law Group, a litigation boutique in Mobile, Alabama, that he started in 1995. The firm handles mass torts and class actions for individuals and small businesses, including claims over defective drugs and medical devices and exposure to toxic substances, and it works with co-counsel across the country.
Since founding the firm, Dampier has served as co-lead counsel or class counsel in many class actions, among them antitrust cases such as In re Flat Glass Antitrust Litigation and In re Potash Antitrust Litigation, a long run of natural gas royalty cases in Alabama, Colorado and Texas, and tax litigation that reached the U.S. Supreme Court in Davis v. Department of Revenue of Kentucky. He is licensed in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado and Washington, D.C.
Dampier holds an accounting degree from The George Washington University (1983), a law degree from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law (1990) and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law (1991). He has served on the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Royalty Policy Committee, the State of Alabama Oil and Gas Board and the State of Alabama Health Coordinating Council.