Select Matters
- Lender liability: Defended mortgage servicer, investor, and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems in wrongful foreclosure suit, winning summary judgment which was ultimately affirmed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. (2016)
- Lender liability: Defended lender and other entities in a suit to set aside a foreclosure, avoid a lien on commercial property, and seeking substantial damages based upon alleged fraudulent alteration of a deed of trust. (2012)
- Business disputes: Defended shareholder in suit to dissolve the family-owned corporation and partition the corporation’s real property, obtaining a favorable result in which property was kept whole and other shareholders’ interests were bought out. (2012)
- Title insurance: Represents title insurance companies in curing title defects and defends insureds in suits affecting title to real estate. (Ongoing)
- Creditors’ rights: Obtained a substantial settlement on behalf of a lender in a fraud suit against one of the principals of a bankrupt borrower. (2015)
- Code enforcement: Represented a lender whose collateral was subject to code enforcement action to prevent potential demolition of the collateral until the loan could be sold to a party who could restore the property. (2014)
- Tax sales: Prevailed in contested suit to confirm a tax title that was appealed by the taxpayer to the Mississippi Supreme Court. (2016)
- Construction law: Prosecuting claim against architect and engineer over alleged faulty designs in HVAC system. (ongoing)
- Eminent domain: Represented natural gas pipeline in eminent domain suits to obtain property for construction of interstate pipeline. (2008)
- Commercial litigation: Represented natural gas pipeline in construction litigation with subcontractors that worked on the pipeline. (2014)
Publications
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Credentials
- Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 2002
- Mississippi State University, B.A., 1999, magna cum laude
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Mississippi
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Mississippi
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Mississippi
- Alabama, 2004
- Mississippi, 2003
- Illinois, 2002
- American Bar Association, Litigation Section: Condemnation, Zoning & Land Use Committee
ABA Section of Litigation
- Dixie Land Title Association
- Mississippi Bar Association
- Hinds County Bar Association