Best Lawyers in America
Watkins & Eager
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
David L. Ayers, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Walter J. Brand, Litigation – Labor and
Employment; Michael O. Gwin; Insurance Law; M.
Bindord Williams Jr., Mergers and Acquisitions
Law; J. Collins Wohner Jr., Appellate Practice.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
Clifford B. Ammons, Workers' Compensation
Law – Employers; David L. Ayers, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants and Product Liability Litigation –
Defendants; Lewis W. Bell, Commercial Litigation
and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Walter
J. Brand, Employment Law – Management, Labor
Law – Management, and Litigation - Labor and Employment; H. Rusty Comley, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; James J. Crongeyer, Jr., Personal
Injury Litigation – Defendants and Product Liability
Litigation – Defendants; George R. Fair, Administrative / Regulatory Law, Corporate Law, Financial Services Regulation Law, Litigation – Banking and Finance,
and Utilities Law; Betty Ruth Fox, Environmental
Law; William F. Goodman, Jr., Appellate Practice,
Banking and Finance Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Energy Law, Natural Resources Law, Oil and Gas Law, Personal Injury
Litigation – Defendants and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Douglas J. Gunn, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants and Product
Liability Litigation – Defendants; Paul L. Gunn, Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law and Real Estate Law;
Michael O. Gwin, Insurance Law and Personal Injury
Litigation – Defendants; C. Joyce Hall, Commercial
Finance Law and Health Care Law; Jamie G. Houston III, Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law, Corporate Law, Elder Law, Litigation –
Trusts and Estates, Litigation and Controversy – Tax,
Tax Law, and Trusts and Estates; Molly Jeffcoat
Moody, Commercial Finance Law and Commercial
Transactions / UCC Law; Mark D. Jicka, Litigation Health Care and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Walter T. Johnson, Insurance Law. Mass Tort
Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation
– Defendants and Product Liability Litigation - Defendants; Richard T. Lawrence, Insurance Law; Kenneth E. Milam, Arbitration, Employment Law –
Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation Labor and Employment and Mediation; Jane B. Morgan, Banking and Finance Law; Mildred M. Morris,
Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Product
Liability Litigation – Defendants; Steven D. Orlansky, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Jason L.
Poulson, Securitization and Structured Finance Law;
William F. Ray, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Litigation – Banking and Finance; Stephanie M. Rippee, Commercial
Litigation, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – De-
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fendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, and
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; William C.
Smith III, Land Use and Zoning Law, Litigation – Land
Use and Zoning and Real Estate Law; Jim F. Spencer,
Jr., Banking and Finance Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization
Law, Commercial Litigation and Litigation – Bankruptcy; Susan Latham Steffey, Family Law and
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants;
Paul H. Stephenson III, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Energy Law, Litigation –
Banking and Finance, Natural Resources Law and Oil
and Gas Law; Keith W. Turner, Environmental Law;
Michael W. Ulmer, Commercial Litigation, Legal
Malpractice Law – Defendants; Michael W. Ulmer,
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants,
Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants and Product
Liability Litigation – Defendants; Rebecca Lee
Wiggs, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants;
Jimmy B. Wilkins, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; M. Binford Williams, Jr., Commercial Finance Law, Commercial Transactions / UCC Law,
Corporate Law, Derivatives and Futures Law, Mergers
and Acquisitions Law, Project Finance Law and Real
Estate Law; Roger W. Williams, Real Estate Law; J.
Collins Wohner, Jr., Appellate Practice.
Balch & Bingham
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Gulfport
Jennifer West Signs, Real Estate Law.
Jackson
R. Pepper Crutcher, Jr., Copyright Law.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Gulfport
Ricky J. Cox, Energy Law; Paul J. Delcambre,
Jr., Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Leo E.
Manuel, Energy Law; John H. Rice, Banking and Finance Law; Real Estate Law; Jennifer West Signs,
Project Finance Law, Real Estate Law; Ben H. Stone,
Energy Law, Gaming Law; H. Rodger Wilder, Energy
Law;Teri T. Wyly, Environmental Law.
Jackson
Scott E. Andress, Gaming Law; R. Pepper
Crutcher, Jr., Copyright Law, Employment Law –
Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation Labor and Employment; Walter H. Boone, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Litigation - Real Estate,
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants;
Tara P. Ellis, Gaming Law; Armin J. Moeller, Jr.,
Employment Law – Management; Labor Law – Management; William C. Reeves, Commercial Litigation,
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants,
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Jennifer
Jones Skipper, Litigation – Insurance; William L.
Smith, Commercial Litigation, Environmental Law,
Litigation - Real Estate; David M. Thomas II, Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management; Christian B. Waddell, Public Finance Law;
Colleen S. Welch, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants.
Overall, the firm had eight Lawyers of the Year and
107 Best Lawyer selections. It also has offices in Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville and Montgomery.
Heidelbert, Steinberger,
Colmer and Burrow
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Pascagoula
Jimmy Heidelberg, Personal Injury Litigation –
Defendants.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Pascagoula
Jimmy Heidelberg, Appellate practice, environmental law, legal malpractice law – defendants, mass
tort litigation/class actions-defendants, medical malpractice law - defendants, personal injury litigationdefendants and professional malpractice law –
defendants.
Ogletree, Deakins
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
Timothy W. Lindsay, Employment Law – Management.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
Robin Banck Taylor, Litigation - Labor and Employment; Timothy W. Lindsay, Employment Law Management, Labor Law – Management.
Overall, 195 attorneys from Ogletree, Deakins,
Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C were listed in The Best
Lawyers. Ogletree Deakins has 49 offices across the
United States and in Europe, Canada, and Mexico.
Baker Donelson
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
Leonard C. Martin, Tax Law; David P. Webb,
Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
John B. Beard, Health Care Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Non-Profit/Charities Law; Jonell B.
Beeler, Health Care Law; Sheryl Bey, Litigation –
Construction; Heather J. Camp, Gaming Law; Barry
K. Cockrell, Health Care Law; Michael T. Dawkins,
Criminal Defense – White-Collar, Environmental Law,
Litigation –Environmental; Alfrado D. Donelson,
Mergers and Acquisitions Law; James K. Dossett
Jr., Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses
Law, Non-Profit/Charities Law, Tax Law, Trusts and
Estates; Brooks Eason, Commercial Litigation, Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment; La'Verne
Edney, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants; Charles W. Ferguson, Health Care Law,
Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Barry W. Ford, Com-
mercial Litigation, Mediation, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Rusty Fortenberry, Government
Relations Practice, Municipal Law; William Davis
Frye, Commercial Litigation; Robert E. Hauberg Jr.,
Antitrust Law, Commercial Litigation, Corporate Compliance Law, Criminal Defense – White-Collar, Litigation – Antitrust; Wilton J. Johnson III, Economic
Development Law, Project Finance Law, Public Finance Law; James L. Jones, Commercial Litigation;
Walker W. Jones III, Appellate Practice, Bet-theCompany Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Insurance
Law, Litigation – Construction, Litigation – Environmental, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants,
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Jon
Stephen Kennedy, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; David F. Maron, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions –
Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants;
Leonard C. Martin, Non-Profit/Charities Law, Tax
Law, Trusts and Estates; Dan M. McDaniel Jr., Gaming Law; Matthew P. McLaughlin, Business Organizations, Economic Development Law, Food and
Beverage Law; William S. Mendenhall, Corporate
Law, Insurance Law, Real Estate Law; Alan L. Moore,
Administrative/Regulatory Law, Insurance Law, Municipal Law, Transportation Law; J. Scott Newton,
Government Relations Practice, Health Care Law, Litigation – Antitrust; William S. Painter, Corporate
Law, Health Care Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law,
Tax Law; J. Randall Patterson, Litigation – ERISA;
Scott W. Pedigo, Com;mercial Litigation, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; William N. Reed,
Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants;
David A. Rueff Jr., Real Estate Law; Frederick N.
Salvo III, Litigation – Real Estate; Jon D. Seawright,
Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law,
Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, NonProfit/Charities Law; Bradley W. Smith, Commercial
Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants,
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Stacy E.
Thomas, Litigation and Controversy – Tax, NonProfit/Charities Law, Tax Law; J. Carter Thompson
Jr., Commercial Litigation, Mass Tort Litigation/Class
Actions – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants,
Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants; D. Jeffrey Wagner, Banking and Finance Law; Robert F.
Walker, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants;
David P. Webb, Business Organizations, Closely
Held Companies and Family Businesses Law, Litigation and Controversy – Tax, Tax Law; W. Scott Welch
III: Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation –
Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs,
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, Transportation Law; Richard F. Yarborough Jr., Litigation – Environmental, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions –
Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants,
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants.
Overall 261 of the firm’s attorneys were selected as
Best Lawyers. Thirty-one were also recognized as
"Lawyers of the Year."
Best Lawyers in America 2017
Butler Snow
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Ridgeland
Benjamin M. Watson, Business Organizations;
Don B. Cannada, Commercial Transactions / UCC
Law; Donald Clark, Jr., Public Finance Law; Gilbert
C. Van Loon, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law; J.
Clifford Harrison, Commercial Finance Law; J. Paul
Varner, Trusts and Estates; Phillip S. Sykes, Litigation – Securities; Stephen C. Edds, Project Finance
Law; Steven M. Hendrix, Real Estate Law.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Gulfport
John M. Harral, Banking and Finance Law, Litigation – Banking and Finance; Robert C. Galloway,
Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants,
Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants; Richard
W. Sliman, Insurance Law; Michael B. Hewes,
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; John L.
Galloway, Real Estate Law.
Oxford
Paul V. Cassisa, Jr., Product Liability Litigation –
Defendants.
Ridgeland
J. Clifford Harrison, Banking and Finance Law,
Commercial Finance Law, Consumer Law, Financial
Services Regulation Law; Edward A. Wilmesherr,
Banking and Finance Law, Administrative / Regulatory
Law, Consumer Law, Corporate Law, Financial Services
Regulation Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law;
Christopher R. Maddux, Bankruptcy and Creditor
Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law;
Stephen W. Rosenblatt, Bankruptcy and Creditor
Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law;
John C. Henegan, Bet-the-company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Communications Law, Litigation –
Antitrust, Litigation – First Amendment; Luther T.
Munford, Bet-the-company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, First Amendment Law, Litigation – First
Amendment, Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation and Controversy - Tax, Media Law; Joshua J.
Wiener, Bet-the-company Litigation, Commercial Litigation; Selby A. Ireland, Business Organizations, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Jefferson
K.B. Stancill, Business Organizations; Benjamin M.
Watson, Business Organizations; John F. England,
Commercial Finance Law, Public Finance Law; Phil B.
Abernethy, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Construction; Kenneth W. Barton, Commercial Litigation,
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; P. Ryan
Beckett, Commercial Litigation, Trade Secrets Law;
Fred E. Bourn III, Commercial Litigation; John A.
Crawford Jr., Commercial Litigation; Paul N. Davis,
Commercial Litigation, Oil and Gas Law; Charles E.
Griffin, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Insurance;
Michael E. McWilliams, Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; E. Barney Robinson III, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Banking and
Finance; Phillip S. Sykes, Commercial Litigation, Cor-
porate Governance Law, Litigation – Real Estate, Litigation – Land Use and Zoning, Litigation – Securities, Litigation and Controversy - Tax, Mass Tort Litigation /
Class Actions – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation –
Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants,
Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants; Don B.
Cannada, Commercial Transactions / UCC Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Tax Law, Real
Estate Law; Matthew H. Grenfell, Commercial Transactions / UCC Law; John J. Healy III, Copyright Law,
Patent Law, Trademark Law; Steven M. Hendrix, Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law,
Corporate Law, Tax Law, Real Estate Law; James B.
Tucker, Corporate Compliance Law; Alveno N.
Castilla, Corporate Law, Litigation and Controversy Tax, Tax Law; Robert B. Harwell, Corporate Law;
Daniel G. Hise, Corporate Law, Gaming Law; Robert
C. Hutchison, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law;
Charles F. Johnson III, Corporate Law, Health Care
Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Benjamin W.
Roberson, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions
Law; Ronald G. Taylor, Corporate Law, Real Estate
Law; Amanda Bolz Barbour, Criminal Defense: White
Collar; Stephen C. Edds, Economic Development Law,
Government Relations Practice, Municipal Law, Project
Finance Law, Public Finance Law; W. Eugene Magee,
Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law; Gilbert C. Van Loon,
Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law; Paula Graves Ardelean, Employment Law – Management, Litigation –
Labor and Employment; Timothy M. Threadgill, Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Manage-
ment; R. Wilson Montjoy II, Energy Law; John A.
Brunini, Environmental Law; Trudy D. Fisher, Environmental Law; Michael D. Caples, Government Relations Practice; Tommie S. Cardin, Government
Relations Practice; Elizabeth L. Clark, Government
Relations Practice; Mark W. Garriga, Government Relations Practice; Samuel W. Keyes Jr., Government
Relations Practice, Public Finance Law; James H.
Bolin, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants; William M. Gage, Mass Tort Litigation / Class
Actions – Defendants; R. Wilson Montjoy II, Mediation, Natural Resources Law, Oil and Gas Law; Richard
M. Dye, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Chad
R. Hutchinson, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Christy D. Jones, Personal Injury Litigation –
Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants;
Donna Brown Jacobs, Product Liability Litigation –
Defendants; Robert A. Miller, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Meade W. Mitchell, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Orlando R. Richmond Sr.,
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Thomas E.
Williams, Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants,
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Lucien L.
Bourgeois, Public Finance Law; Donald Clark, Jr.,
Public Finance Law; Sue Hicks Fairbank, Public Finance Law; W. Michael Russ, Public Finance Law;
Thad W. Varner, Public Finance Law; Kurt G.
Rademacher, Tax Law; Arthur D. Spratlin, Jr., Transportation Law, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants;
Ronald I. Loeb, Trusts and Estates; J. Paul Varner,
Trusts and Estates, Tax Law.
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Grower & Hewes, PLLC
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Tupelo /Columbus region
J. Gordon Flowers, Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants.
Jackson
R. David Kaufman, Product Liability LitigationDefendants; Watts Ueltschey, Energy Law; Ron
Yarbrough, Construction Law.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Biloxi
Leonard A. Blackwell II, Gaming Law.
Columbus
J. Gordon Flowers, Commercial Litigation, Environmental Law, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions –
Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants,
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants.
Jackson
Matt Allen, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions Defendants; Sheldon G. Alston, Litigation-Real Estate, Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants; P. David
Andress, Real Estate Law; Benje Bailey, Mass Tort
Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants; Stephen J.
Carmody, Employment Law – Management, Labor
Law – Management, Litigation – Intellectual Property,
Litigation – Labor and Employment, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants; R. Richard Cirilli,
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants,
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; John M.
Flynt, Administrative/Regulatory Law, Corporate
Law; Louis G. Fuller, Litigation and Controversy –
Tax, Tax Law; Lynne K. Green, Trusts and Estates;
James L. Halford, Communications Law and Energy
Law; William Trey Jones III, Commercial Litigation
and Litigation – Environmental; R. David Kaufman,
Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation,
Litigation – Securities, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation- Defendants;
Samuel C. Kelly, Construction Law, Litigation – Construction; James A. McCullough II, Bankruptcy and
Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Bankruptcy, Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law; M.
Patrick McDowell, Commercial Litigation, Mass Tort
Litigation/ Class Action- Defendants, Product Liability
Litigation – Defendants; John E. Milner, Environmental Law, Litigation – Environmental; William C.
Penick IV, Corporate Law; W. Ken Rogers, Corporate Law; Joseph A. Sclafani, Appellate Practice;
Watts C. Ueltschey, Administrative/Regulatory Law,
Energy Law, Energy Regulation Law, Mining Law, Oil
and Gas Law, Real Estate Law; Leonard D. Van
Slyke Jr., Litigation – First Amendment, Litigation –
Trusts and Estates, Litigation and Controversy – Tax,
Tax Law, Trusts and Estates; Joseph E. Varner III,
Tax Law, Trusts and Estates; John E. Wade, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants;
Walter S. Weems, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Tax Law; Ron A. Yarbrough, Construction Law and Litigation – Construction.
Phelps Dunbar
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
Fred L. Banks, Arbitration; Jerome C. Hafter,
Corporate Law; Ross F. Bass, Jr., Litigation-Banking
and Finance.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
Reuben V. Anderson, Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice LawDefendants, Mediation; Fred L. Banks, Jr., Appellate
Practice, Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Mediation; Ross F. Bass, Jr., Commercial Litigation, Legal
Malpractice Law-Defendants, Litigation-Banking & Finance; A.M. Edwards III, Business Organizations,
Tax Law, Trusts and Estates; Gary E. Friedman, Employment Law-Management, Labor Law-Management, Litigation-Labor & Employment; Jerome C.
Hafter, Biotechnology Law, Corporate Law; James
W. O’Mara, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor
Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Bridgforth R. Rutledge, Franchise Law; James W. Shelson, Commercial Litigation, Environmental Law, Mass
Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants; W.
Thomas Siler, Jr., Employment Law-Management,
Labor Law-Management; Frank W. Trapp, Antitrust
Law, Criminal Defense: Non-White Collar, Criminal Defense: White Collar; T. Calvin Wells, Commercial Finance Law, Corporate Law.
Tupelo
F.M. Bush III, Corporate Law, Health Care Law,
Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Trusts and Estates;
Mark N. Halbert, Employment Law-Management,
Litigation-Labor and Employment; Jeffrey S. Moore,
Health Care Law; Gregory D. Pirkle, Tax Law, Trusts
and Estates.
Gulfport
Kyle S. Moran, Litigation-Insurance, Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants; James G. Wyly III, Mediation, Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants,
Transportation Law.
Mayo Mallette
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Oxford
Pope S. Mallette, Municipal Law; J. Cal Mayo,
Jr., Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation.
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Bradley
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
Douglas Minor, Jr., Litigation – Real Estate.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
Michael J. Bentley, Commercial Litigation; Jeffrey Blackwood, Commercial Litigation; Roy D.
Campbell III, Litigation – Insurance, Personal Injury
Litigation – Defendants; David W. Clark, Commercial
Litigation; Rodney Clement Jr., Land Use and Zoning
Law, Real Estate Law; Margaret Oertling Cupples,
Appellate Practice, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Wayne Drinkwater, Appellate Practice, Betthe-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Mass
Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants; Ralph B.
Germany, Jr., Construction Law; William Manuel,
Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Environmental,
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants;
Douglas Minor, Jr., Commercial Litigation, Litigation
– Real Estate; Mary Clay W. Morgan, Commercial
Litigation, Litigation – Labor and Employment; Wendy
R. Mullins, Business Organizations; Dinetia M.
Newman, Health Care Law; Alan W. Perry, Bet-theCompany Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Corporate
Governance Law, Corporate Law, Litigation – Banking
and Finance, Litigation – Real Estate; William R.
Purdy, Construction Law; Alex Purvis, Insurance
Law, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Joseph
J. Stroble, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants;
Stephen L. Thomas, Bet-the-Company Litigation,
Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Intellectual Property, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product
Liability Litigation – Defendants; Stephen M. Wilson,
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency
and Reorganization Law, Corporate Law, Litigation and
Controversy – Tax, Tax Law.
Litigation - Construction, Litigation – Municipal; Silas
W. McCharen, Administrative / Regulatory Law,
Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Employment Law - Management, Litigation Labor and Employment, Mass Tort Litigation / Class
Actions – Defendants; W. Bienville Skipper, Workers' Compensation Law – Employers; Roy A. Smith,
Jr., Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants.
Oxford
Wilton V. Byars III, Insurance Law, Municipal
Law, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product
Liability Litigation – Defendants; Mitchell O.
Driskell III, Litigation – Insurance; Larry D. Moffett
Commercial Litigation, Energy Law, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants, Natural Resources
Law, Oil and Gas Law; George E. Read, Workers'
Compensation Law – Employers; Kenneth Rutherford, Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law; Robert
F. Stacy Jr., Litigation - Insurance, Personal Injury
Litigation – Defendants.
Gilchrist Donnell
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Ridgeland
Kathryn R. Gilchrist, Health Care Law - Certificate of Need, Employment, Fraud and Abuse, Hospitals, Litigation, Medicare, Physicians, Reimbursement.
Daniel Coker Horton & Bell
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
Silas W. McCharen, Administrative / Regulatory
Law; Roy A. Smith Jr., Professional Malpractice Law
– Defendants.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Gulfport
John Stanford Gonzalez, Workers' Compensation Law – Employer; Edward C. Taylor, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants.
Jackson
Jackson H. Ables III, Personal Injury Litigation –
Defendants; Robert S. Addison, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; C. Michael Ellingburg, Commercial
Litigation, Construction Law, Litigation - Banking and
Finance, Litigation - Construction, Litigation – Securities; B. Stevens Hazard, Mass Tort Litigation / Class
Actions - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, Transportation Law; J. Wyatt Hazard, Personal Injury
Litigation – Defendants; Gary K. Jones, Workers'
Compensation Law – Employers; Terry R. Levy,
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Jones Walker
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
Kathryn H. Hester, Litigation - Land Use and
Zoning; Craig N. Landrum, Corporate Governance
Law; L. Keith Parsons, Corporate Compliance Law;
W. Whitaker Rayner, Copyright Law; Thomas B.
Shepherd III, Gaming Law.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Gulfport
George F. Bloss III, Litigation - First Amendment,
Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants; Frederick T.
Hoff, Jr., Litigation and Controversy - Tax, Real Estate Law, Tax Law; Henry F. Laird, Jr., Commercial
Litigation, Litigation - First Amendmen; Joseph
Henry Ros, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury
Litigation – Defendants.
Jackson
Joseph “JoJo” L. Adams, Employment Law Management, Labor Law – Management; Jeffrey R.
Barber, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation, Litigation – Bankruptcy; Neville H. Boschert, Commercial
Litigation, Insurance Law, Litigation – Antitrust; H.
Mitchell “Micky” Cowan, Commercial Litigation Insurance, Insurance Law, Litigation - Antitrust, Litigation - Banking and Finance, Litigation – Bankruptcy;
Mark T. Davis, Real Estate Law; William E. Dossett, Tax Law, Trusts and Estates; J. Andrew
Gipson, Securities Regulation; Chad J. Hammons,
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency
and Reorganization Law, Litigation – Bankruptcy;
Mark D. Herbert, Construction Law, Litigation –
Construction; Kathryn H. Hester, Land Use and
Zoning Law, Litigation - Land Use and Zoning; Robert
B. House, Administrative / Regulatory Law; Gina M.
Jacobs, Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law;
Kristina M. Johnson, Bankruptcy and Creditor
Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law,
Litigation – Bankruptcy; Linda Bounds Keng, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Trusts and Estates;
Craig N. Landrum, Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law,
Corporate Law, Financial Services Regulation Law,
Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Robert S. Lazarus,
Corporate Law, Economic Development Law, Project
Finance Law, Public Finance Law; David L. Martin,
Administrative/Regulatory Law, Banking and Finance
Law, Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Commercial Finance Law, Corporate Law,
Financial Services Regulation Law, Insurance Law;
Dennis W. Miller, Energy Law, Government Relations Practice; L. Keith Parsons, Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law,
Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Public Finance Law,
Securities / Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation; Keith R. Raulston, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants,
Litigation – Antitrust, Litigation – Banking and Finance, Litigation – Bankruptcy, Litigation – Insurance,
Litigation – Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom,
Energy), Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants,
Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers; W.
Whitaker Rayner, Copyright Law, Information Technology Law, Litigation - Intellectual Property, Trademark Law; Thomas B. Shepherd III, Corporate Law,
Gaming Law; Stanley Q. Smith, Communications
Law, Energy Law; Zachary Taylor III, Corporate Law,
Municipal Law, Project Finance Law, Public Finance
Law, Securitization and Structured Finance Law;
Aileen S. Thomas, Commercial Finance Law, Commercial Transactions / UCC Law, Corporate Law; Jim
B. Tohill, Real Estate Law; Randall B. Wall, Corporate Law, Municipal Law, Project Finance Law, Public
Finance Law.
Forman Wakins & Krutz
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
Walter G. Watkins, Mass Tort Litigation / Class
Actions – Defendants.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
Edwin S. Gault, Jr., Mass Tort Litigation / Class
Actions - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants;
Nicholas C. Giallourakis, Product Liability Litigation –
Defendants; Fred Krutz, Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Environmental, Mass Tort Litigation / Class
Actions - Defendants - Personal Injury, Product Liability, Toxic Tort, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Daniel J. Mulholland, Mass Tort Litigation /
Class Actions – Defendants; Walter G. Watkins,
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants,
Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Walter G. Watkins,
Jr., Litigation - Environmental, Mass Tort Litigation /
Class Actions - Defendants - Asbestos, Class Actions,
Environmental, Personal Injury, Pharmaceutical, Product Liability, Toxic Tort, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants.
Fisher Phillips
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Gulfport
Steven R. Cupp, Labor Law – Management.
Farese, Farese & Farese
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Ashland:
John Booth Farese, Personal Injury Litigation Plaintiffs - Automobile Collision; Steven E. Farese,
Jr., Criminal Defense: White-Collar.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Ashland
Anthony L. Farese, Criminal Defense: General
Practice, Criminal Defense: White-Collar, DUI/DWI
Defense; John Booth Farese, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs - Automobile Collision, Catastrophic Injury, Civil
Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Product Liability,
Railroad, Wrongful Death; John S. Farese, Family
Law - Alimony, Appellate, Arbitration and Mediation,
Child Custody, Divorce, Equitable Division, Litigation,
Marital Settlement Agreements; Steven E. Farese,
Jr., Criminal Defense: General Practice, Criminal Defense: White-Collar, DUI/DWI Defense; Steven E.
Farese, Sr., Criminal Defense: General Practice Family, Criminal Defense: White-Collar, DUI/DWI Defense
Adams & Reese
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
Charles N. Parrott, Financial Services Regulation
Law; Holmes S. Adams, Litigation: Trusts and Estates; J. Jeffrey Trotter, Oil and Gas Law; Paul A.
Carrubba, Banking and Finance Law.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
A. Jerry Sheldon, Energy Law, Natural Resources
Law; C. Phillip Buffington, Jr., Banking and Finance
Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Charles N. Parrott, Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Financial Services Regulation Law, Litigation - Real Estate;
Charles P. Adams, Jr., Corporate Law, Litigation –
Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities /
Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation; Charles
R. Wilbanks, Jr., Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions
– Defendants; Elizabeth Lee Maron, Education
Law; Holmes S. Adams, Litigation - Trusts and Estates, Trusts and Estates; J. Jeffrey Trotter, Energy
Law, Environmental Law, Litigation – Environmental,
Oil and Gas Law; James A. Keith, Education Law,
Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management; Paul A. Carrubba, Banking and Finance
Law; Financial Services Regulation Law; Powell G.
Ogletree, Jr., Energy Law, Litigation - Real Estate,
Natural Resources Law, Real Estate Law, Timber Law;
Raymond G. Russell, Corporate Law; William C.
Brabec, Insurance Law
Overall, 117 Adams and Reese attorneys from the
firm’s 16 regional offices were named Best Lawyers
and 13 attorneys were named “Lawyers of the Year.”
Currie Johnson
Griffin & Myers
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
William H. Creel, Jr., Insurance Law; Edward J.
Currie, Jr., Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation –
Defendants; Whitman B. Johnson III, Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants - Birth Trauma, Litigation,
Medical Negligence, Pharmaceutical; Lisa Williams
McKay, Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants Hospital Malpractice; Michael F. Myers, Insurance
Law.
Corlew Munford & Smith
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
John G. Corlew, Bet-the-Company Litigation; Virginia T. Munford, Litigation – Environmental.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
John G. Corlew, Bet-the-Company Litigation,
Commercial Litigation, Environmental Law, Litigation
- Banking and Finance, Litigation - Environmental,
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants;
Virginia T. Munford, Environmental Law - Clean
Water Act, Environmental Permitting, Solid Waste,
Superfunds/Environmental Remediation, Toxic Tort,
Waste, Wetlands, Litigation – Environmental; Kathy
K. Smith, Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Environ-
mental, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, Product Liability
Litigation – Defendants.
Merkel & Cocke
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Clarksdale
John Hartwell Cocke, Personal Injury Litigation –
Plaintiffs, Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs;
Charles M. Merkel III, Medical Malpractice Law –
Plaintiffs; Charles M. Merkel, Jr., Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs, Product
Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs
Bennett, Lotterhos,
Sulser & Wilson
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
Richard T. Bennett, Arbitration, Bankruptcy and
Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law - Chapter 12, Commercial, Litigation, Mediation; Joseph E. Lotterhos, Insurance Law –
Litigation; Marcus M. Wilson, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization
Law - Chapter 12, Collections, Commercial, Committee Representation, Consumer, Creditors' Rights,
Foreclosures, Litigation, Out-of-Court Workouts, Real
Estate, Workouts and Restructurings, Litigation –
Bankruptcy.
Biggs, Ingram & Solop
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
Robert A. Biggs III, Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Stan T. Ingram, Natural
Resources Law, Oil and Gas Law; Edward Otis
John-son, Jr., Energy Law, Natural Resources Law Oil & Gas, Oil and Gas Law; Lynn Thompson,
Construction Law; Christopher Solop, Construction
Law, Government Contracts.
McGlinchey Stafford
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
H. Hunter Twiford III, Litigation – Municipal.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
G. Dewey Hembree III, Commercial Litigation;
H. Hunter Twiford III, Commercial Litigation - Class
Actions, Complex Litigation, Litigation - Banking and
Finance, Litigation - Municipal, Mass Tort Litigation /
Class Actions – Defendants.
Anderson Crawley & Burke
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Ridgeland
Terry Germany, Workers' Compensation Law –
Employers; James M. Anderson, Workers' Compensation Law - Employers - Appellate, Insurance, Litigation, Occupational Disease.
Best Lawyers in America 2017
Wells Marble & Hurst
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Ridgeland
Betty Burton Arinder, Workers' Compensation
Law - Employers – Mediation; Clifford K. Bailey III,
Insurance Law - ERISA, Litigation, Litigation – ERISA;
Steven H. Begley, Insurance Law, Litigation – ERISA;
Roxanne P. Case, Litigation - Insurance, Workers'
Compensation Law – Employers; Roy H. Liddell,
Commercial Litigation; Thomas M. Louis, Litigation
- Insurance, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants,
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Kenna L.
Mansfield, Jr., Insurance Law - Bad Faith; R. David
Marchetti, Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law, Trusts and Estates - Closely-Held Businesses, Family; Kelly D. Simpkins, Commercial
Litigation, Insurance Law; Robert H. Walker, Commercial Litigation; Walter D. Willson, Commercial
Litigation; R. James Young, Trusts and Estates Asset Protection, Elder, Estate Planning, Litigation,
Nonprofit Organizations and Charitable Giving, Probate, Succession Planning, Tax, Trust Administration,
Wealth Management.
Deutsch Kerrigan
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Gulfport
R. Douglas Vaughn, Insurance Law.
Overall, the New Orleans-based firm had 21 attorneys in The Best Lawyers and one Lawyer of the Year
Watson Heidelbert Jones
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Flowood
Maison Heidelberg, Commercial Litigation, Mass
Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants, Medical
Malpractice Law - Defendants; Chase Bryan, Litigation-Environmental.
Young Wells Williams
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Ridgeland
Edwin Stephen Williams, Litigation – Construction.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Ridgeland
Don H. Goode, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law,
Tax Law; James H. Neeld IV, Corporate Law - Mergers & Acquisitions; Edwin Stephen Williams, Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Construction, Litigation
- Real Estate.
Blair & Bondurant
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
Si M. Bondurant, Natural Resources Law.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
William F. Blair, Energy Law, Natural Resources
Law, and Oil and Gas Law; Si M. Bondurant, Energy
Law, Natural Resources Law, and Oil and Gas Law.
Maron Marvel
Bradley & Anderson
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
Thomas W. Tardy III,– Commercial Litigation,
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; James G. House III –
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants;
John C. McCants III – Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants; John R. Robinson – Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Julie E. Chaffin – Mass
Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants; Samuel
D. Habeeb – Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants;
Stefan G. Bourn – Product Liability Litigation – Defendants.
Mitchell, McNutt & Sams
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Tupelo
Margaret Gratz, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Tupelo
Michael D. Ferris, Real Estate Law; Margaret
Gratz, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; William C. Murphree, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants Automobile, Defendants, Government Entity; L. F.
Sams, Jr., Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial
Litigation, Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants,
Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants - Medical Malpractice, Product Liability, Professional Malpractice,
Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, Professional
Malpractice Law – Defendants; Dennis W. Voge,
Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants, Workers'
Compensation Law – Employers; John G. Wheeler,
Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants - Birth Trauma,
Catastrophic Injury, Hospital Malpractice, Litigation,
Medical Negligence, Nursing Homes, Personal Injury,
Pharmaceutical, Wrongful Death, Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants - Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Homes, Professional
Liability.
Columbus
James P. Wilson, Jr., Bankruptcy and Creditor
Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law.
Oxford
D. Andrew Phillips, Bankruptcy and Creditor
Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law.
Davis & Crump, P.C.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Gulfport
Martin D. Crump, Product Liability Litigation –
Plaintiffs.
Holcomb Dunbar
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Oxford
Jack Dunbar, Arbitration, Litigation and Personal
Injury Litigation- Defendants; Mike Watts, Insurance
Law.
Wise Carter
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
Crane D. Kipp, Land Use & Zoning Law; George
H. Ritter, Health Care Law; James L. Robertson,
Litigation: Antitrust; John P. Sneed, Litigation: First
Amendment; Michael B. Wallace, Government Relations Practice.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Gulfport
James C. Simpson, Jr., Commercial Litigation,
Corporate Law; Lynda C. Carter, Litigation: Healthcare.
Hattiesburg
Joe D. Stevens, Banking & Finance Law.
Jackson
Andrew D. Sweat, Workers’ Compensation Law,
Employers; Barbara C. Wallace, Employment Law:
Management, Litigation: Labor & Employment; Betty
Toon Collins, Commercial Transactions/UCC Law,
Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance
Law, Corporate Law, Health Care Law; Charles E.
Ross, Railroad Law; Crane D. Kipp, Eminent Domain
& Condemnation Law, Health Care Law, Land Use &
Zoning Law, Litigation: Land Use & Zoning; D. Collier
Graham, Jr., Corporate Law, Health Care Law, Litigation: Health Care; Douglas E. Levanway, Energy
Law, Energy Regulatory Law, Litigation: Labor & Employment, Litigation: Regulatory Enforcement (SEC,
Telecom, Energy); Eugene R. Naylor, Health Care
Law, Insurance Law, Medical Malpractice Law: Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation: Defendants; Gaye
Nell Currie, Litigation: Health Care; George H. Ritter, Health Care Law, Litigation: Health Care, Personal
Injury Litigation: Defendants, Railroad Law; Henderson S. Hall. Jr., Energy Law, Utilities Law; James E.
Graves III, Railroad Law; James K. Child, Jr., Energy Law; James L. Robertson, Admiralty & Maritime Law, Appellate Practice, Civil Rights Law,
Commercial Litigation, Environmental Law, Insurance
Law, Litigation: Antitrust, Litigation: Environmental,
Litigation: First Amendment, Litigation: Intellectual
Property; John D. Price, Mass Tort Litigation/Class
Actions: Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation: Defendants, Product Liability Litigation: Defendants,
Professional Malpractice Law: Defendants; John P.
Sneed, Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation,
Corporate Law, Litigation: First Amendment; Mass
Tort Litigation/Class Actions: Defendants; Margaret
H. Williams, Corporate Law, Health Care Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Mark P. Caraway, Litigation:
Health Care, Medical Malpractice: Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation: Defendants; Michael B. Wallace, Appellate Practice, Bet-the-Company Litigation,
Commercial Litigation, Government Relations Practice; R. Mark Hodges, Health Care Law, Medical
Malpractice Law: Defendants; Virginia S. Gautier,
Workers’ Compensation Law: Employers; W. McDonald Nichols, Eminent Domain & Condemnation Law,
Litigation: Trusts & Estates, Trusts & Estates.
Gainsburgh, Benjamin,
David, Meunier
& Warshauer
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Ridgeland
Walter C. Morrison IV, Personal Injury Litigation
– Plaintiffs.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Ridgeland
Walter C. Morrison IV, Medical Malpractice Law
- Plaintiffs, Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs.
Clayton O’Donnell
» LAWYERS OF THE YEAR:
Oxford
David D. O'Donnell, Insurance Law.
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
Oxford
David D. O'Donnell, Civil Rights Law, Insurance
Law, Litigation - Municipal, Municipal Law - Defense,
Election, Litigation, Tort; Claude F. Clayton, Jr.,
Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants.
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Bradshaw joins CPA firm
Harper, Rains, Knight & Company, P.A. of Ridgeland has
added Frank J. Bradshaw, CPA
as a director and shareholder of
the firm.
A native of Jackson, Bradshaw
graduated Magna Cum Laude
with a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Spring Hill College
and earned a Master of Account- Bradshaw
ancy from Millsaps College.
Bradshaw’s primary focus will be to continue serving
clients in the firm’s taxation department.
Bradshaw is the finance chairman of the Salvation
Army Jackson Regional Coordinate Advisory Board,
the Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants Nonprofit Taskforce Committee, the Estate Planning Council of Mississippi and the Council of
Petroleum Accountants Society. He is a member of
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the Central Chapter of Certified Public
Accountants.
Bradshaw and his wife, Erica, have two children.
They live in Madison and attend St. Joseph Catholic
Church.
Koerber Co. hires Payne
Justin A. Payne recently
joined The Koerber Company, PA,
as a staff accountant. A native of
Cleveland, Payne received a
Bachelor of Science degree with
a major in Finance from Delta
State University and a Master of
Business Administration degree
from the University of Mississippi. The Koerber Company, PA
is located in Hattiesburg.
Payne
Evans joins Planters Bank
Planters Bank has hired Mellany Evans as Vice President of
Retail Sales and Training. Evans
previously worked for BanccorpSouth for 20 years in Regional
Marketing and Retail Banking.
She is a graduate of Delta State
University where she received
her BBA in Marketing. She is also
Evans
a graduate of the American
Bankers Association’s School of
Bank Management and Marketing.
Evans is a member of the Desoto County Schools
Cooperative Education Advisory Board and Desoto
County Economic Development Council where she
served as the Chair of the Education committee and
member of the Legislative Committee. She has served
on the Board of Directors for the Delta State University Alumni Association and as President of the Desoto County Chapter. Evans is serving as the Secretary
for the Desoto County Alumni Chapter for Kappa
Delta Sorority. She has served as the Site Coordinator
of Desoto County Internal Revenue Service Volunteer
Income Tax Assistance. She has volunteered with the
Special Olympics, Mid South Food Bank, MIFA Meal
Delivery, Girl Scout Troop leader, American Cancer
Society, March of Dimes and Porter Leath Toy Truck.
Evans was awarded the Southaven High School Par-
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More Best Lawyer in America
The following are attorneys who are included in the 2017 Edition of Best Lawyers, and were not a
part of the list published in the Sept 16 edition of the MBJ. Best Lawyers is the oldest peer-review publication in the legal profession. Best Lawyers has published it list for over three decades as a source of
legal referrals. Lawyers on the Best Lawyers in America list are divided by geographic region and practice areas. They are reviewed by their peers on the basis of professional expertise, and undergo an authentication process to make sure they are in current practice and in good standing. Lawyer of the Year
is awarded to only one attorney in each community and practice area.
Lalor, Bailey & Aby
» 2017 EDITION OF BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
F. Hall Bailey, Insurance Law; Personal Injury
Litigation - Defendants; Workers' Compensation
Law - Employers.
Cook Copeland Taylor &
Bush
» 2017 EDITION OF BEST LAWYERS:
Biloxi
William L. McDonough, Jr., Insurance Law;
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants;
Ronald T. Russell, Workers' Compensation Law
- Employers; William E. Whitfield III, Personal
Injury Litigation - Defendants.
Ridgeland
Michael W. Baxter, Insurance Law; Charles
Glen Bush, Energy Law, Oil and Gas Law;
Thomas A. Cook,
Corporate Law;
Charles G. Copeland, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law;
Thomas L. Kirkland, Jr., Health Care Law;
William H. Leech, Sr., Banking and Finance Law,
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Financial Services
Regulation Law, Litigation - Bankruptcy, Litigation
- Real Estate; James R. Moore, Jr., Insurance
Law; Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants;
ent of the Year in 2016.
Evans is a member of Getwell Road United
Methodist Church in Southaven and is married to
Brad Evans. They have two daughters Mollie and
Maggie.
McCollum earns PhD
Holmes Community College
Associate Degree Nursing Instructor Pamela McCollum,
RN, MSN, MS, BS, recently
earned her PhD in Nursing Education and Administration from
William Carey University in Hattiesburg.
Prior earning her PhD, McCollum obtained a Bachelor of Sci- McCollum
ence in Nursing, a Master of
Science in Nursing, and a Master of Science in Education from the University of Southern Mississippi. She
has taught on the Ridgeland Campus for 23 years; 11
years in her current role as ADN faculty, and 12 as a
coordinator and instructor for the Practical Nursing
program.
Transportation Law; J. Ryan Perkins, Litigation Insurance; Roger C. Riddick, Workers' Compensation Law - Employers; Dale G. Russell, Insurance Law; Allison C. Simpson, Health Care Law;
Glenn Gates Taylor, Energy Law, Litigation - Environmental, Natural Resources Law, Oil and Gas
Law, Water Law; Robert P. Thompson, Personal
Injury Litigation - Defendants, Workers' Compensation Law - Employers.
DunbarMonroe PLLC
» 2017 BEST LAWYERS:
» LAWYER OF THE YEAR:
Jackson
David C. Dunbar, Transportation Law.
» 2017 EDITION OF BEST LAWYERS:
Jackson
David C. Dunbar, Legal Malpractice Law,
Medical Malpractice Law, Transportation Law.
Previously, she worked as a staff nurse for St. Dominic Health Services, as a charge nurse/nursing preceptor/unit coordinator for the University of
Mississippi Medical Center, as a staff nurse for Covington County Hospital, and as a nurse/assistant supervisor and later assistant director of nursing for
Hillcrest Health Center.
McCollum has been recognized with various honors, including the Lynn B. McMahan Gerontology
Award, Who’s Who in American Nursing, and most
recently, Associate Degree Nursing Faculty of the Year
for 2015-2016.
She stays active in professional memberships
such as Sigma Theta Tau Inc. International Honor Society of Nursing, the Mississippi Nurses Association/American Nurses Association, and the Holmes
Ridgeland Faculty Association.
Hosemann named to panel
The National Association of Secretaries of State
has appointed Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann Co-Chairman of the 2016-17 Standing Committee on Securities. Connecticut Secretary of State
Denise Merrill is the current NASS President.
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Accreditation gained
Central Mississippi Health Services, Inc., was recently named an accredited diabetes education program by the American Association of Diabetes
Educators, a National Accredited Organization, certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
This will allow the people with diabetes in and around
the Jackson Metropolitan Area increased access to
high quality diabetes education services.
The program offered by Central Mississippi Health
Services, Inc. is comprehensive and is taught by a
board certified diabetes educator and registered dietitian and nutritionist.
Central Mississippi Health Services, Inc., has three
accredited clinic locations as well as designated community site locations for individual and group sessions. The clinic locations are: 1134 Winter St. (Main
Clinic), 5429 Robinson Road Extension (Southwest
Clinic), and 500 W. County Line Road (Tougaloo
Clinic).
Law firm appoints Painter
Baker Donelson has named William S. Painter as
the firm's chief innovation officer, a position created
to focus on continued innovation in the delivery of
client services and technology.
Painter, who previously served as Baker Donelson's
chief strategic planning officer, will oversee several
areas of the firm that are key drivers of innovation, including legal project management, knowledge management, information technology, pricing,
eDiscovery/practice support, research and non-traditional services.
As chief strategic planning officer, Painter led the
development of BakerManage, Baker Donelson's
patent-pending legal project management system,
which was recognized by the International Legal
Technology Association in 2012 with a Distinguished
Peer Award for "Project of the Year."
A shareholder in Baker Donelson's Jackson office,
Painter focuses his practice on corporate, tax and
health care restructuring.
He has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in
America, including being named the Jackson "Lawyer
of the Year" in Corporate Law (2016), Health Care
Law (2013) and Tax Law (2010). He has also been
recognized by Chambers USA: America's Leading
Lawyers for Business and Mid-South Super Lawyers,
where he has been listed among the top 50 attorneys
in Mississippi.
Whitaker joins First Bank
Brad Whitaker has joined
First Bank in McComb as a commercial lender and senior vicepresident. Previously, Whitaker
was an award-winning agent for
Farm Bureau of Mississippi, serving the Pike County area.
He also was the PGA head
golf professional at Fernwood
Country Club from 1999-2008. Whitaker
Whitaker is a graduate of the
University of Southern Mississippi with a degree in
Communications and a minor in Marketing.
Whitaker and his wife, Melanie Lewis, have two
children Caroline, 16, and Bradley, 13, and are members of Centenary United Methodist Church.