The lawyers at Whatley Drake & Kallas are committed to using the substantial resources at the firm to achieve meaningful change to our society. In recent years the revolutionary settlements that Edith Kallas and Joe Whatley negotiated with most of the managed care companies in the country, with extensive injunctive relief allowing doctors to practice medicine with protections from the abuses of managed care provide the most noted examples of the firm using litigation to achieve meaningful change.

However, the lawyers at the firm have devoted their careers to this end. Joe Whatley devoted a substantial part of his career representing historically black universities in their effort to expand and improve their programs and facilities to overcome the effects of de jure segregation in the South. Jack Drake began his career representing mental health patients and obtaining pathbreaking institutional relief to insure that those patients are treated in the least restrictive environment consistent with their condition. As United State Attorney and then as an attorney at the firm, Doug Jones successfully prosecuted and convicted the last remaining perpetrators of the church bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed four little girls in the 1960s.

Whatley Drake & Kallas is one of the largest plaintiffs’ law firms in the country. It regularly brings its resources to bear to remedy corporate and governmental abuses and to recover significant monetary amounts for its clients. Moreover, the firm prides itself in going beyond the recovery of money to achieve meaningful change that makes a difference not only to our clients but to our society as a whole. Today, the firm is pursing claims with respect to the subprime lending abuses and the dangers of lead-contaminated toys that American companies had manufactured in China and then sold to our children. They are attempting not only to provide remedies for the victims of those abuses but also to obtain relief to insure that similar abuses do not happen again.