John T. Rouse is an associate in the firm's Jackson office. He concentrates his practice in the areas of business litigation, class action defense, commercial litigation, consumer financial services, medical malpractice defense and general litigation.
John also serves as an Assistant Editor for the CAFA Law Blog - www.cafalawblog.com, and has earned the highest Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating for his term of practice.
Published Opinions
· Richardson v. New Century Mortgage Corp., 2005 WL 1554026 (N.D. Miss. July 1, 2005), affirmed without opinion, 2006 WL 2990260 (5th Cir. October 19, 2006).
· Toler v. Litton Loan Servicing, LP, 2006 WL 1303129 (N.D. Miss. May 9, 2006).
Professional Affiliations
· American Bar Association
· Hinds County Bar Association
· Jackson Young Lawyers
· The Mississippi Bar Association
· Tennessee Bar Association
· Fifth Circuit Bar Association
· Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association, Young Lawyer's Division Committee Chair
· Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions, Character and Fitness Committee
· Defense Research Institute
Presentations
· "Getting Comfortable with E-Discovery," Negotiation & Settlement Strategies & Other Practical Tips for Litigators (Barristers Educational Services), Jackson and Gulfport, MS, July 2010
Publications
· "A Primer on Metadata: To Scrub or Not to Scrub?" Executive Counsel Magazine, Aug/Sept 2011
· "Have You Heard of Electronic Discovery and Metadata," ABA Consumer & Civil Rights Litigation, Vol. 14, No. 1, Winter 2011
· "E-Discovery and the Ethics of Metadata," The Mississippi Lawyer, Volume LIV, Number 4, May-June 2008
· "eDiscovery 101: What is Metadata and How Do you Produce ESI Containing MetaData?" Digital Matters, The Newsletter of the Technology for the Litigator Committee, Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 2008
· "The 5th Circuit examines the exceptions to CAFA jurisdiction in Preston," Consumer Financial Services Law Report, Volume II, Issue I, 5/2007
· "CAFA Enunciates a New Burden of Proof Standard for Federal Jurisdiction," Consumer Financial Services Law Report, Volume 10, Issue 15, 8/2006
· "Resorting to CAFA's Legislative History Resolves Some Ambiguity," Consumer Financial Services Law Report, Volume 9, Issue 10, 11/2005
· "CAFA Law Blog," www.cafalawblog.com, 9/2005
· "CAFA's New "Minimal Diversity" Standard for Interstate Class Actions Creates a Presumption that Jurisdiction Exists, with the Burden of Proof Assigned to the Party Opposing Jurisdiction," Mississippi College Law Review, 25 Miss. C. L. Rev. 7, Fall 2005
Community and Other Activities
· Mississippi College School of Law, Adjunct Professor (Appellate Advocacy), 2008-2010
Awards & Honors
· Editor-in-Chief, Mississippi College Law Review, 2003-2004
· "Joey Phillips Memorial Award", Mississippi College School of Law, 2004