Attorneys
D. Briggs Smith, Jr.
Briggs Smith is both a Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and a registered pharmacist. In addition to handling major products liability and personal injury cases, Briggs pioneered the field of players’ rights litigation in the burgeoning arena of casino gaming.
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Colmon Mitchell
Colmon Mitchell oversees the firm’s corporate, business and public entities practice. He has handled public improvements including library, post office, and convention center development and financing. Colmon also directs the firms’s real estate practice, including major commercial and residential projects, from the Batesville, Mississippi office.
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Paul R. Scott
Paul R. Scott heads up the firm’s DeSoto County office in Hernando, Mississippi. DeSoto County, located in suburban Memphis, Tennessee, was the fastest growing county in the State according to the 2000 Census with a growth rate of 57.9% since 1990, and is the State’s fifth largest county overall. A former President of the Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association, Scott’s primary practice area is in the representation of landowner’s in eminent domain cases. In addition, Scott works in the firm’s personal injury, insurance and consumer litigation practice.
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Rebecca S. Thompson
Rebecca S. Thompson handles real estate and commercial transactions in the fast growing Desoto County and North Mississippi region. In addition to real estate practice, she also has extensive experience in chancery court dealing primarily with probate matters. She also participates in the firm's general civil practice.
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Parker H. Still
Parker is an associate with the firm. In addition to handling litigation with the firm, Parker also serves as Assistant City Prosecutor for the City of Batesville, Panola County Bar President and South Panola High School Mock Trial coach.
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Jason L. Nabors
Jason is an associate with the firm. Jason’s primary areas of practice include class action litigation, complex litigation, corporate defense and products liability.
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Richard T. Phillips
Richard T. Phillips is nationally recognized in the field of plaintiffs’ insurance litigation. He has served as lead counsel in vanishing premium and deceptive sales practices life insurance litigation in individual and class actions from California to Massachusetts. Phillips is a former President of the Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association and former President of the William C. Keady Chapter of the American Inns of Court.
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Megan C. Willoughby
Megan C. Willoughby is an associate with the firm and practices out of the firm's office in Hernando, Mississippi. Her primary areas of practice include domestic relations, probate, personal injury and worker's compensation.
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Anthony E. Nowak
Born Westfield, Massachusetts, 1967. Graduate of University of Massachusetts-Amherst (cum laude), 1985. Graduate of Western New England College School of Law, 1995. Licensed to practice in Mississippi, Tennessee and Massachusetts.
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Joseph D. Neyman, Jr.
Jody Neyman practices in the firm's Hernando office where in addition to his public entity practice he participates in the firm's general civil practice, with trial experience at the federal and state court and on the appellate levels. Admitted to practice in Mississippi and Tennessee, Jody is a member of the Mississippi and Tennessee Bar Associations, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association.
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Robert R. Morris III
Bob Morris is trial attorney with experience in a variety of areas, including complex business and civil litigation. He is admitted to practice in both Mississippi and Tennessee, with trial experience at the federal and state court levels. Bob's trial experience includes appellate work before the Federal Court of Appeals for the Fifth and the Sixth Circuits.
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