About Stephen
Steve has extensive experience as lead counsel in major litigation, not only in Mississippi, but throughout the Southeast. He has tried well over 200 cases to conclusion and has tried cases in 59 of Mississippi’s 82 counties and in 17 different states. Steve is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and is included in Best Lawyers in America, in Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, Products Liability and Bet-the-Company Litigation. Steve is also listed as a Level 1 commercial litigator in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
Steve has extensive experience as lead counsel in major litigation, not only in Mississippi, but throughout the Southeast. He has tried well over 200 cases to conclusion and has tried cases in 59 of Mississippi’s 82 counties and in 17 different states. Steve is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and is included in Best Lawyers in America, in Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, Products Liability and Bet-the-Company Litigation. Steve is also listed as a Level 1 commercial litigator in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
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Case History
Education
Professional Affiliations
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Intellectual Property, Jackson, MS (2025)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Intellectual Property, Jackson, MS (2020)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Intellectual Property, Jackson, MS (2018)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Intellectual Property, Jackson, MS (2014)
- Lawyer of the Year: Bet-the-Company Litigation, Jackson, MS (2011)
- Recognized: Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Recognized: Commercial Litigation
- Recognized: Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Recognized: Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
- Recognized: Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
- Practice Area: Personal Injury Litigation
- Special Focus: Agricultural Cooperative
- Special Focus: Arbitration and Mediation
- Special Focus: Civil Litigation
- Special Focus: Complex Litigation
- Special Focus: Environmental
- Special Focus: Insurance
- Special Focus: Intellectual Property
- Special Focus: Large Case Litigation
- Special Focus: Occupational Disease
- Special Focus: Product Liability
- Special Focus: Professional Malpractice
- Special Focus: Toxic Tort
- Listed in Super Lawyers, “Top 50 Jackson Super Lawyers,” General Litigation, 2013
- Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers, General Litigation, 2006-2013
- Listed in Chambers USA, Litigation: General Commercial, 2006-2013
- Listed in Benchmark Litigation, "Litigation Star," Mississippi, 2008-2014
