Kristopher W. Carter

Practice Areas
•Hurricane-Related Litigation
•Personal Injury
•Wrongful Death
•General Civil Litigation
•Complex Litigation
•Consumer Litigation
•Constitutional Law
•Divorce
•Child Custody
•Child Support
•Marine Oil Spills
•Products Liability
•Premises Liability
•Real Estate Litigation
•Medical Malpractice
•Appellate Practice
•Trial Practice
•Employment Discrimination
•Insurance Bad Faith
•Criminal Law
•Maritime/Shipyard Injuries


University: University of Southern Mississippi, B.A., Foreign Languages, 2002

Law School: The University of Mississippi School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2005

Admitted: 2005, Mississippi; 2006, Alabama

Memberships: Jackson County Bar Association; The Mississippi Bar; Alabama State Bar; American Bar Association; Mississippi Association for Justice; Southern Trial Lawyers Association; American Association for Justice; Jackson County Young Lawyers Association.

Languages: Spanish, English, German (intermediate), Japanese (intermediate)

Born: Laurel, Mississippi, February 15, 1980

Biography: University of Southern Mississippi - Member: Pi Kappa Alpha, Student Alumni Association. Recipient: Leadership Scholarship, Pi Kappa Alpha Alumni Scholarship. University of Mississippi School of Law - Member: Mississippi Law Journal; Moot Court Executive Board, Moot Court Board; Phi Kappa Phi; Environmental Law Society; Gorove International Law Society. Editor-in-Chief, Mississippi Review of First Impressions. Participant, Supreme Court Practice, Professor George Cochran, Spring, 2005. Recipient: American Jurisprudence Outstanding Student Award, Professor Robert Weems, Mississippi Wills and Estates, Fall, 2003; M.M. Roberts Scholarship; Dean's Scholarship; Trustmark National Bank Award Scholarship. First Recipient, William Weems Gates Memorial Scholarship. Clerk to Judge David Ishee, Mississippi Court of Appeals, 2005-2006. Former Member: Jackson Young Lawyers Association; Hinds County Bar Association.