I’ve been practicing law in Northeast Mississippi for more than forty years, including trying cases in both jury and non-jury settings, administrative law and appeals in both state and federal courts.

I have experience in employment law primarily from the standpoint of management as well as litigating cases in commercial disputes representing companies and personal injury primarily representing insurance carriers and defendants.

In addition to litigation, I currently represent Town Creek Master Water Management District for Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss & Union Counties.

Areas of Practice

• Labor & Employment Law

• First Amendment Law

• Technology

• General Civil Litigation

• Commercial Litigation

• Intellectual Property

• Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution

Admitted by Courts

• Mississippi State and Local Courts

• Mississippi Supreme Court

• U. S. District Court, Northern & Southern Districts of Mississippi

• Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

• United States Supreme Court

Memberships

• Lee County Bar Association

• Mississippi Bar Association

• American Bar Association

• Association for Conflict Resolution

• ABA Forum on Mass Communications Law

• ABA Section on Science & Technology Law

• ABA & Miss. Bar Sections on Labor & Employment Law

• Fellow, American Bar Foundation

Education, Activities & Achievements

• AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating

• Listed in Best Lawyers in America more than 30 years

• Member, Mississippi Information Technology Services Board (2005- )

• Member, Rules Advisory Committee, United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi - Drafted Local Rule on ADR

• Member, Special Committee on Judicial Election Campaign Intervention (2018, 2022)

• Chair, Mississippi Judicial Election Oversight Committee

• District Lay Leader, Tupelo District, Mississippi Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church

• Salvation Army Advisory Board (Chair - 2008-2010)

• U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee Counsel (1980)

• University of Mississippi, J.D., 1979

  • Omicron Delta Kappa

  • Ole Miss Hall of Fame

• University of Mississippi, B.A., 1977