South Carolina

Badge Humphries
Associate Attorney

Badge Humphries represents institutional investors and individuals in complex securities fraud and shareholder litigation. He has achieved corporate governance enhancements for Motley Rice’s clients in derivative cases involving Massey Energy Company and The South Financial Group, Inc., and has litigated direct class actions from start to finish in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Securities fraud cases in which he has played a significant litigation role include actions against UBS, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., Vivendi and Washington Mutual, Inc. 

Badge has experience in aspects of shareholder and securities fraud litigation, from initial case evaluation and complaint drafting to directing settlement negotiations involving corporate governance reforms. He also drafted an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the seminal case of Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd., 551 U.S. 308 (2007).
 
Badge has litigated other types of complex litigation, as well. He has conducted discovery and motion practice before courts across the country and has participated in several multi-week trials representing victims of asbestos exposure, including a mass consolidation of more than 1,200 plaintiffs lasting eight weeks in Virginia state court and a three week trial in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Baltimore Division. He currently represents the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s Division of Workers’ Compensation Funds in claims against the manufacturers of allegedly defective dust masks and is actively involved with the firm's litigation efforts on behalf of individuals and businesses in Gulf Coast communities suffering as a result of the BP oil spill.

Badge previously served as the Director of Land Protection for the South Atlantic region of Ducks Unlimited, an international conservation organization. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Badge worked for a non-profit human rights organization before attending The University of Texas School of Law, where he was a member of the Texas Law Review and an honors graduate. He served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Lee Yeakel of the Texas Third Court of Appeals and later clerked with the Honorable Thad Heartfield of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas. Badge is a member of the South Carolina Association for Justice and serves as Chairperson for the Association's Securities Committee.