Gutsy casino entrepreneurs helped launch Mississippi into the gaming business more than 20 years, and today a new breed of entrepreneurs are buying up properties for their portfolios. One constant in the casino market’s maturation process: lawyers. At the beginning, there were regulations to learn and transactions to clear for brand new clients. Now firms [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: June 14,2012
Tags: attorneys, bench, court sysytem, courts, electronic filing, electronic records, judges, judicial, juducuary, law, lawyers
CANTON — The County Court of Madison County will officially become a paperless system for filing civil court records June 29. The transition to electronic records in the County Court marks another milestone for Madison County, where Chancery and Circuit Courts served as the state’s first testing grounds for developing the Mississippi Electronic Courts system. Civil cases in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 11,2012
Tags: attorneys, bench, clients, courts, embezzlement, judges, judicial, judiciary, law, lawyers, sentence, sentencing, trust
RIDGELAND — Sentencing is scheduled for a Ridgeland attorney who has admitted to swindling hundreds of thousands of dollars from his former clients. Attorney Vann Leonard who practiced law out of Ridgeland faces 60 years behind bars and a $750,000 fine. Leonard has pleaded guilty to three counts of embezzlement. He’s admitted to misleading two [...] [...]
RIDGELAND — Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC, has expanded its Nashville office as 37 attorneys have joined the firm, bringing the total number of attorneys in Tennessee to almost 100. With this expansion, Butler Snow becomes one of the largest firms in the state and among the largest in the country, with more [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 29,2012
Tags: appeal, asbestos, attorneys, courts, fraud, law, lawyers, railroads, sentence, sentencing, verdict
MCCOMB — A federal appeals court panel has upheld a $420,000 verdict against two Mississippi lawyers accused of committing fraud during an asbestos lawsuit they filed in 2001. McComb attorneys William Guy and Thomas Brock sued Illinois Central Railroad Company on behalf of former employees who claimed asbestos made them sick. The railroad company later [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 29,2012
Tags: attorneys, bribery, conviction, judges, judicial, judicial bribery, judiciary, law, lawyers, sentence, sentencing
OXFORD — Imprisoned former attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs wants to take his push to vacate his 2009 conviction in a judicial bribery case to a federal appeals court. And a judge has denied a request to reduce the sentence of co-defendant Steve Backstrom The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Scruggs filed a motion asking a [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 25,2012
Tags: attorneys, bench, courts, judges, judicial, judiciary, justices, law, lawyers, legal, state agency, state government, taxes, taxpayers
JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled yesterday in two cases that legal fees paid to private lawyers to represent the state are public funds. Justices said because the money belongs to the public, it should’ve been paid out to the lawyers from the attorney general’s contingent fund or from other money appropriated to the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 24,2012
Tags: attorneys, bench, bribery, conviction, corruption, courts, decision, judges, judicial, judicial bribery, judiciary, law, lawyers, sentencing
ABERDEEN — A federal judge has dismissed imprisoned attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs’ push to vacate his 2009 conviction in a judicial bribery case The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Senior U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson yesterday dismissed Scruggs’ motion. If he decides to appeal, the matter would move to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 23,2012
Tags: attorneys, bill, elected officials, executive, law, lawmakers, lawyers, legal counsel, legislation, legislative, Legislature, Politics, public officials, state agency, state government
JACKSON — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant yesterday signed a law limiting the attorney general’s control of the state’s legal business. The law, which takes effect July 1, requires the attorney general to appoint outside lawyers if he declines to represent an agency or elected official, or if there is a “significant disagreement” with an agency [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 17,2012
Tags: attorneys, case, courts, disaster, disaster revocery, fraud, hurricanes, judges, judicial, judiciary, law, lawyers, natural disaster, severe weather, tropical weather
HANCOCK COUNTY — A federal judge has ordered the government to identify alleged co-conspirators in a case involving a Hancock County couple accused of being involved in a kickback scheme related to storm cleanup contracts. Roger Ladner, a former Hancock County road manager, and his wife, Sharon, are scheduled for trial July 23 in federal [...] [...]
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