
Sharon Bridges, current general counsel and immediate past vice president of the National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest and largest national association of predominantly African American lawyers and judges, has joined the law firm of Adams and Reese as a litigation partner in the firm’s Jackson office. Bridges, a former partner of Brunini, Grantham, Grower [...] [...]
Gordon “Sandy” Sanford, former special counsel to AT&T Mississippi and lobbyist and attorney with the Willoughby Law Group, has joined the law firm of Adams and Reese as special counsel in the Special Business Services Group, practicing in the Jackson office. Sanford has been practicing law since 1998, and his principal areas of practice are [...] [...]

Transactions attorney Phil Buffington has joined Adams and Reese as special counsel in the Transactions Practice Group, practicing in the firm’s Jackson office. Prior to joining Adams and Reese, Buffington served as managing member and member of a Mississippi-based law firm. Buffington, a Canton native, has been practicing law in Mississippi since 1984. Buffington’s transactions [...] [...]

Adams and Reese associate Scott Jones, in the firm’s Jackson office, has been elected to the board of directors for the Capital Area Bar Association, a 75-year-old organization of lawyers in metropolitan Jackson. Jones also contributes his technology skills as website committee chair to the Capital Area Bar Association and participates in the Mississippi Bar [...] [...]

The law firm of Adams and Reese announces the election of Jackson office attorney Bernard Booth IV as partner. Booth’s appointment was effective Jan. 1. Booth joined Adams and Reese in 2007 and focuses his practice on energy and natural resources, energy-related litigation and mass tort litigation. He is admitted to practice in all federal [...] [...]

Adams and Reese partner Gee Ogletree in the firm’s Jackson office has been elected chairman of the firm’s Executive Committee. Ogletree has served as a member of the Executive Committee for the last two years. He joined Adams and Reese in 1997 and is the founding partner and co-leader of the Forestry team. He practices [...] [...]

Adams and Reese is pleased to welcome two new associates to the firm’s Jackson office – Benjamin B. Morgan and Lindsey N. Oswalt, both in the Litigation Practice Group. Morgan served as editor-in-chief of the Mississippi College Law Review and graduated magna cum laude from Mississippi College School of Law. He received American Jurisprudence awards [...] [...]

Elizabeth Lee Maron, a partner in Adams and Reese, LLP’s, Jackson office, has been reappointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court for a third term to the Mississippi Commission on Continuing Legal Education. Maron was appointed by Justice Jim Kitchens, and in July, the commission members elected Maron to serve as chairman for 2009-2010. Maron is [...] [...]

Adams and Reese, LLP, partner Alfrado D. Donelson has been accepted into the 2009-2010 class of Leadership Greater Jackson, a program run by the Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership to establish relationships among existing and emerging business leaders from varied segments of the community, to assist in solving community problems, to educate participants as to major [...] [...]