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 in obtaining substantial verdict and settlements in the areas of personal injury, employment law, wrongful death, toxic exposure and medical malpractice. 

Courtney is 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 a 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, Voire 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 , 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 in on the clients themselves, as human beings. She finds that by spending time, getting to truly know her clients and honor 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. They are also the recipients of CAALA’s Ted Horn Award for Service and Iowa’s Verne Lawyer Outstanding Member Award for their contributions. "They have elevated the plaintiffs bar in our state and created more opportunities for injured Iowans to achieve full justice in our courts."  

Courtney and Nick are the producers of Making a Killing, a documentary about the injustices of patients and the healthcare system when caps allow insurance defense corporations to 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, while ensuring that physicians and other medical professionals can treat patients without fear of financial ruin,” Gavin Newsom said in a written statement. “This is an important victory for the stability and health of our healthcare system, and for patients across California.”

Courtney is a dedicated advocate for education, especially for girls. She and her family have built water wells and a school in Kenya. They also founded a marine conservation and preservation organization in Costa Rica, MCEC, whose projects include the restoration of coral reefs in Costa Rica, Spain, and Fiji. She teaches trial skills and speaks across the country for legal and professional organizations.

Courtney is licensed in California, Wyoming, Montana, Iowa, Colorado and Washington. 

She and her family live between Montana and California.  

• Children and Students, Holding a District Responsible for Sexual Abuse over 19 years, $48 million verdict
• Children and Mothers, Toxic Exposure against Monsanto, $100 million verdict 
• Adult Children, Medical Malpractice resulting in wrongful death, Settlement
• Children, Toxic Exposure against Monsanto, $275 million verdict
• Soldier, Traffic Accident, Personal Injury, San Diego County, $7.5 million verdict
• Minor, Dart out, Catastrophic Injury, $18.5 million settlement
• Adult Male, Trigeminal Neuralgia, $4 million settlement
• Minor, Medical Malpractice, $16 million settlement during trial
• Minor, Traffic Accident, Brain Injury, $10 million verdict
• Minor, Traffic Accident, Brain Injury $4 million settlement
• Adult Male, Employment Discrimination against LA Times
• Mother, Medical Malpractice, $29.5 million,  Orange City Iowa
• Immigrant Father, Wrongful Death, $8.1 million, Los Angeles
• Father, Wrongful Death, $14 million, Modesto California
• Mother, Back Injury, $4 million, California

• Bachelors of International Relations from University of Southern California, 2004
• Juris Doctor, Loyola Law School, 2007

• Running with the Bulls
• Voir Dire and Opening Statements
• Damages Evolving
• Trial By Woman

• Personal Injury
• Toxic Exposure
• Birth Injury
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Catastrophic Injury
• Medical Malpractice
• Wrongful Death
• Employment Discrimination

Courtney believes in teamwork to achieve justice. When it comes to taking on the insurance defense industry, Courtney believes that it is in the unification of talents that justice can be best achieved for her clients. She accepts referrals from attorneys in every state in the country.