Ralph W. Hornsby Jr. is a partner with the law firm of Hornsby, Watson & Hornsby. He has nearly 30 years of experience advocating for his clients in the Huntsville, Alabama, metropolitan area and throughout much of the northern part of the state. Mr. Hornsby practices in the areas of plaintiff's personal injury law and business litigation. His representative cases include motor vehicle accidents, business civil disputes and wrongful death matters.

After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Birmingham-Southern College in 1989, Mr. Hornsby attended the University of Alabama School of Law and was awarded his Juris Doctor in 1992. Admitted to practice before all Alabama state courts, he is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Hornsby has obtained many six- and seven-figure awards for his clients, both in court and through negotiations. In one representative case, he obtained an award of $318,000 for client in a slip-and-fall case involving a Kmart store, and then subsequently defeated the company once again when it filed an appeal. Mr. Hornsby is rated as Distinguished* through Martindale-Hubbell, a peer reviewed rating given to attorneys who are recognized for attaining a high level of legal skill and ethics.

Actively involved in his profession, Mr. Hornsby has been inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates and is a member of the National College of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Hornsby is also a barrister with the American Inns of Court Foundation and is a member of the Alabama Association for Justice, the Huntsville-Madison County Bar Association and the Alabama State Bar Association.

*AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell® is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™ fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.

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