Earl Lamar Denham

Practice Areas:

•Hurricane and Bad Faith Insurance Litigation
•Complex Litigation
•Divorce
•Child Custody
•Maritime Accidents
•Criminal Law
•Real Estate Litigation
•White Collar Crime
•Mediation
•Commercial Litigation
•Wrongful Death and Personal Injury
•Marine Oil Spills

University: University of Mississippi, B.S. in Biology, 1969

Law School: The University of Mississippi School of Law, J.D., 1972

Admitted: 1972, Mississippi

Memberships: The Mississippi Bar; American Bar Association; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; American Association for Justice; Mississippi Association for Justice; Southern Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors); The Lamar Order.

Military: Captain, U.S. Army (Ret)

Languages: Spanish

Born: July 1, 1947

Biography: Omicron Delta Kappa; Sigma Phi Epsilon; Order of Omega. Certified Advocate, National College of Advocacy.

Reported Cases: Warwick v. Gautier Utility Dist. (setting aside lower court dismissal of utility rate dispute and directing liability); McClain v. White (setting aside default judgment); Logan v. Logan (landmark ruling giving custody of child to step father over natural mother); Gulf Coast Research Laboratory v. Amaraneni (civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and landmark establishment of expectation of continuing employment for at will state employees); State v. Roderick (declaring Mississippi RICO statute on usury unconstitutionally void for vagueness); Touart v. Johnston (affirming trial victory of youth court judge over board of supervisors); Dunn v. Dunn (landmark decision involving equitable liens in a domestic case); Lawler v. Government Employees Ins. Co. (establishing that statute of limitations in Mississippi does not begin to run for minors until age 21); Extension of Boundaries of City of Moss Point v. Sherman (Municipal annexation-contestants' win at trial affirmed); In re Jordan (capital murder conviction reversed); Robinson v. Robinson (affirming divorce); Denham v. Ramsey (striking down Mississippi residency requirements for voting).