Bill Smith is a partner who has enjoyed an extensive and diverse civil litigation practice of 31 years. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeal for the Second, Fifth, Eighth and Eleventh Circuits and all state and federal Courts in Mississippi. He practiced for 23 years with the Brunini Law Firm in Jackson, where he chaired one of the firm’s two litigation sections and its environmental group. In 1998, he left Brunini to become General Counsel of Mississippi Chemical Corp. (NYSE-GRO) and oversaw the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. He left Mississippi Chemical in 2003 to re-enter private practice.

Representative Experience

• Mr. Smith has handled over 100 regulatory enforcement actions before the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and the EPA representing such companies as Pennzoil, Amerada Hess, Mississippi Chemical Corporation, Mississippi Phosphates, Vicksburg Chemical, Southern Natural Gas Corporation, Texas Eastern, Tenneco, Koch Energy, Mueller Brass, Ingalls Shipyard, First Mississippi Corporation, numerous poultry processors, etc.  In addition he has handled numerous controversial environmental permit cases including the only permitted hazardous waste disposal facility in the state for Holnam"s Artesia, Mississippi Cement kiln.
   
  Mr. Smith served as National Counsel in EPA consent order negotiations for Transcontinental Gas Transmission's PCB problems.  He served as Mississippi counsel for the remainder of the interstate Pipeline industry on thier massive PCB contamination problems.  In addition Mr. Smith defended Tenneesse Gas Transmission and Texas Eastern Corporation in numerous civil cases growing out of the PCB issues.
   
  He has defended chemical exposure cases involving pesticides, solvents, asbestos, drilling fluids, and airborne particullates.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• • American Bar Association, Litigation and Environmental Law
  • American Corporate Counsel Association
  • Metro Jackson Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors
  • Country Club of Jackson, President
  • St. Andrews Episcopal School, Executive Committee
  • Jackson Touchdown Club, President
  • Defense Research Institute (DRI)
  • Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
  • Mississippi Memorial Stadium, Board of Directors
  • Jackson Convention and Visitors Bureau, Board of Directors

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