Courtney Rowley

Courtney Rowley is a national trial lawyer, published author, and mother. She represents only people – never corporations, insurers, or institutions – in catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, toxic tort, and wrongful death cases. She is CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year 2025.

Most recently, Courtney co-led the civil prosecution of Monsanto on behalf of more than 150 teachers, students, and parents poisoned by PCBs at the Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe, Washington. After three years of litigation and multiple trials, Monsanto settled the entire inventory of pending Sky Valley cases.

Courtney's work extends beyond the courtroom. She and her husband, Nick, have spent their careers trying cases together as equal partners, and have been politically active in defending the civil justice system – helping reform California's MICRA caps on medical malpractice damages and, this year, fighting to protect civil rights against the Uber ballot initiative.

Closest to her is Trial By Woman, the nonprofit she co-founded with Theresa Hatch. What began as a small effort to teach and support women trial lawyers has grown into a national community of powerful attorneys.

Courtney has authored four books: Trial By Woman; Voir Dire and Opening Statement; Running with the Bulls: How to Win Top Dollar Settlements; and Damages Evolving, with David Ball and Artemis Malekpour. She has taught trial skills across the country for more than 15 years, including several years teaching at Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College.

She grew up in Oxnard, California, and studied at USC and Loyola Law School. She and Nick live in Montana with their children.