Courtney Rowley

Courtney Rowley is a mother, trial lawyer, and author. She has built her career and reputation on representing regular people against insurance defense companies and corporations. She views the jury system as fundamental to maintaining a healthy democracy. Courtney has achieved notable success by obtaining substantial verdicts and settlements in personal injury, employment law, wrongful death, toxic exposure, and medical malpractice.

Courtney is the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles’ Trial Lawyer of the Year for 2025.

Recently, Courtney has joined a team of lawyers in prosecuting Monsanto, an international chemical corporation, for its toxic injuries to women and children of the Sky Valley School System in Washington, U.S. Two recent cases she was involved in resulted in verdicts of $275 million and $100 million. These were part of a series of trials that ultimately led Monsanto and Bayer to settle the PCB cases against Sky Valley plaintiffs.

Courtney has authored four books, including Trial By Woman, which can be found on Amazon, Voir Dire and Opening Statement, Running with the Bulls: How to Win Top Dollar Settlements, and Damages Evolving with David Ball and Artemis Malekpour.

Courtney is the owner of The Rowley Law Firm, a member of Trial Lawyers for Justice, and a founder of Trial By Woman, a nonprofit organization designed to empower, support, and educate women in business and leadership. She is an advocate for civil rights and the importance of equity, both inside the courtroom and out. She has obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for clients from states across the country. Her focus is on the clients themselves, as human beings. She finds that by spending time, getting to honestly know her clients and honoring their dignity as individuals, she is better able to translate their experience to juries.

Courtney practices with her husband, Nick Rowley, founder of Trial by Human and Trial Lawyers for Justice. Nick and Courtney Rowley have been honored with numerous awards for their work in improving healthcare and expanding the civil rights of medical malpractice victims. They are the recipients of the Consumer Watchdog Rage for Justice Lifetime Achievement Award to honor their work in public interest, specifically their work to reduce and change a 45-year medical malpractice caps statute to expand all injured persons’ civil rights, especially for women and people of color.

Courtney and Nick are the producers of Making a Killing, a documentary about the injustices patients face when insurance defense corporations control access to the courts. “This agreement signals the end to one of the most longstanding battles in California politics, and strikes a fair balance protecting patients,” Gavin Newsom said in a written statement.