MOUNT PLEASANT -- The American Association for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America) presented Motley Rice LLC co-founding attorney, Ron Motley, with the David S. Shrager President’s Award July 17 at the association’s annual convention in Chicago. 

The Shrager Award is given to an American trial lawyer who is consistently in the forefront of litigation by creatively and ingeniously using litigation to safeguard and protect American consumers and the civil justice system. 

For more than three decades, Motley has been a driving force of major complex litigation. His groundbreaking efforts achieved several critical breakthroughs in justice for asbestos victims, including occupational and household exposures. Motley spearheaded the historic litigation against the tobacco industry, serving as lead trial counsel for 28 states, which resulted in the largest settlement in the history of civil litigation.