Distinctions · AV-rated, Martindale-Hubbell · American College of Real Estate Lawyers · The Best Lawyers in America®, Real Estate Law, Tax Law · Jackson, Mississippi Lawyer of the Year, Real Estate, 2010 · Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Real Estate · Leadership in Law, 2011 Class (MBJ) · Mid-South Super Lawyers®, Real Estate · Who's Who Legal: USA, Real Estate · Fellow, Mississippi Young Lawyers Associations · American Bar Association
- Business Law Section
- Real Property, Probate and Trust Section
-- Property Tax Committee · American Land Title Association · Dixie Land Title Association · International Council of Shopping Centers · Mississippi Bar
- Real Estate Section
-- Chair, 1995-96
- Business Law Section
-- Secretary, 1992 · Tri-County Real Estate Association
- President, 2003-04 · Capital Area Bar Association Legal Experience · Real estate counsel and local financing counsel for $400 million electric generating facility, together with gas and water pipeline facilities. · Jitney-Jungle Stores of America acquisition and financing of Delchamps, Inc. Lead counsel in acquisition of major regional grocery store chain and related financing. · Primary real estate counsel to developer of a 2,000-acre planned residential community, golf course and country club in Madison County, Mississippi. · Primary real estate counsel to land owners and co-developers in the sale and development of three adjacent lifestyle shopping centers containing in excess of one million square feet in Rankin County, Mississippi. · Lead real estate counsel to Fortune 100 discount retailer in the land purchase and development of more than thirty (30) projects in Mississippi and Alabama. Papers, Presentations & Publications · International Council of Shopping Centers, 2006 Gulf South Idea Exchange and Alliance Program: "The Legal Quagmire After the Storm," 2006. · The Agricultural Foreclosure: Special Issues and Concerns -- "Practice of Law in Mississippi" Manual, University of Mississippi Law School, 1998. · Debt Capitalization of Business Enterprises, Proceeding of the Forty-Fourth Annual Mississippi Law Institute, 1989. · "Due Diligence, Negotiations and Letters of Intent," Cambridge Institute, Buying and Selling Privately Held Companies, 1996, 1997 and 1998. · Mississippi State Bar Convention, 1997. · Mississippi College School of Law Sixth Annual Business Law Seminar, 1996. · "Real Estate Nuts, Bolts and a Few Loose Screws," Mississippi College School of Law Annual Real Estate Seminar (Chairman, 1991; Speaker, 1990, 1996). · Deposit Guaranty National Bank Officer Training Program, 1994-96. · University of Mississippi School of Law Title Insurance Seminar, 1995. · University of Mississippi School of Law, Real Estate Financing, 1991-92. · Debt Financing, Mississippi Law Institute, 1989. · University of Mississippi Law School and Mississippi College School of Law. · Mississippi Law Institute, 1989. · Mississippi College School of Law, Current Trends in Real Estate Law, 1987. · Real Estate, Mississippi Young Lawyers Bridge-the-Gap Seminar. |