Arkansas Lawyer Interviews

St. Louis, MO A group of seven farmers are the lead plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit that claims “corporate greed” and “a rush to market” by some of the world’s biggest makers and promoters of agricultural chemicals caused farm crops to wither and die costing farm operators millions of dollars in lost revenue and possibly forcing them to switch all their seed stock to herbicide resistant Monsanto seed in the coming years whether they want to or not.

Fayetteville, AR Attorney Robert K. Rhoads is a shareholder in Oklahoma City-based Hall Estill, working out of the firm's Northwest Arkansas office in Fayetteville. A 1980 JD graduate of the University of Arkansas law school, Rhoads recently won a $2.6 million dollar jury verdict for compensation in a condemnation case involving the neighboring city of Cloverdale, Ark. LawyersandSettlements.com spoke with Rhoads shortly after the verdict in his Fayetteville office.