Attorney profile

Earl Lamar Denham
Member

Practice Areas: Wrongful Death and Personal Injury; Hurricane and Bad Faith Insurance Litigation; Complex Litigation; Constitutional Law; Divorce; Child Custody; Maritime Accidents; Criminal Law; Real Estate Litigation; White Collar Crime; Mediation; Commercial Litigation

 

Admitted: 1972, Mississippi

 

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

 

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

 

Biography: Omicron Delta Kappa; Sigma Phi Epsilon

 

Languages: Spanish.

 

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 ($461,000 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 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)

 

Born: July 1, 1947

 

ISLN: 907912840

Kristopher Weiss Carter

Associate

 

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

 

Admitted: : 2005, Mississippi; 2006, Alabama

 

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

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

 

Member: The Mississippi Bar; The Alabama Bar; American Bar Association; Mississippi Association for Justice; Southern Trial Lawyers Association; American Association for Justice; Jackson County Bar Association, Jackson County Young Lawyers Association; Former Member: Hinds County Bar Association.

 

Biography: The 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 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. University of Southern Mississippi: Member, Pi Kappa Alpha; Student Alumni Association; Recipient, Leadership Scholarship, Pi Kappa Alpha Alumni Scholarship. Clerk to Judge David Ishee, Mississippi Court of Appeals, 2005-2006

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

Born: February, 15, 1980, Laurel, Mississippi

 

ISLN: 918738262

Jason Embry

Associate

Practice Areas: Hurricane Related and Bad Faith Insurance Litigation; Personal Injury; Workers Compensation; Automobile Accidents and Injuries; Family Law; Maritime and Shipyard Injuries

Admitted: 1995, Mississippi

Law School: The University of Mississippi School of Law, J.D., 1995

Member: Mississippi Bar Association; Mississippi Association for Justice; Southern Trial Lawyers Association

Born: August 07, 1969

ISLN: 919796711