Member: Organizations & Committees Membership
Director, BancorpSouth, Inc. and BancorpSouth Bank
Former Director, Mississippi Valley Gas Company
Trustee, The Robert M. Hearin Foundation and the Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation
Trustee, Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers
• Chambers USA Leading Individuals: Litigation - General Commercial (Star Individuals) and Appellate since 2003
• The Best Lawyers in America® since 1983: Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, Litigation - Banking & Finance, Litigation - Real Estate ( 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.)
• The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year (copyright 2009 by Woodward-White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.)
• The Best Lawyers in America® 2010 Jackson, Mississippi Corporate Lawyers of the Year (2009 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.)
• The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 Jackson, MS Corporate Governance Law Lawyer of the Year ( 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.)
• Mid-South Super Lawyers® since 2006: Business Litigation
• Top 50 Mississippi Super Lawyers® since 2006
• Martindale-Hubbell® Preeminent AV™ Peer Review Rated
• Benchmark Litigation Local Litigation Star: Antitrust, Complex Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property and Securities
Organizations/Committees Membership
• Director, BancorpSouth, Inc. and BancorpSouth Bank
• Former Director, Mississippi Valley Gas Company
• Trustee, The Robert M. Hearin Foundation and the Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation
• Trustee, Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning
Previous Experience Relative To Current Practice
• Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Charles Clark, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Ongoing Peer Education & Seminar Presentations
• "What Can You Pay a Fact Witness?" 2008 Mississippi Law Update
Published Articles
• "Partnerships and Tax Shelters: The Crane Rule Goes Public", 27 Tax Law Review 525
• "The Model Business Corporation Act: Does the Mississippi Version Lime the Bushes?", 46 Miss. L.J. 371 (with E. Clifton Hodge)
Teaching
• Mississippi College School of Law, Constitutional Law and Corporations
Community Service Involvement
• Member, Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States
• Former Member, Board of Visitors, Harvard Law School
• Former Member, Board of Visitors, Mississippi College School of Law