Donna Brown Jacobs

Practice Group Leader
Appellate and Written Advocacy Group

Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare Industry Group

Jackson Office
Tel: (601) 985-4538
E-mail: donna.jacobs@butlersnow.com

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Areas of Emphasis

• Appellate Litigation
• Pharmaceutical Product Liability Defense
• Media Defense

Distinctions

• The Best Lawyers in America®, Appellate Law
• Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Litigation: Appellate
• Mid-South Super Lawyers®, Appellate
• Mississippi Law Section, 50-State Survey of Law of Defamation and Invasion of Privacy
• Quarterly Procedural Update, Fifth Circuit Reporter

Education & Honors

• University of Mississippi, J.D., magna cum laude, 1988
• Symposium Editor, Mississippi Law Journal
• University of Mississippi, B.P.A., summa cum laude, 1985
• Clerkship, Judge Charles Clark, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit

Associations

• American Bar Association
• Forum on Communications
• Appellate Practice Committee
• Defense Research Institute
• Appellate Advocacy Committee
• Media Law Resource Center
• Mississippi Bar
• Hinds County Bar Association
• Bar Association of 5th Federal Circuit

Bar Admissions

• Mississippi, 1989
• U.S. District Courts
• Mississippi: Northern and Southern Districts
• Michigan: Eastern District
• U.S. Court of Appeals
• 5th Circuit
• 6th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Legal Experience

• Barbour v. State ex rel. Hood, 974 So. 2d 232 (Miss. 2008).
• 3M Co. v. Johnson, 895 So.2d 151 (Miss. 2005), $22.5 million judgment reversed and rendered.
• Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc. v. Armond, 866 So.2d 1092, Prod. Liab. Rep. (CCH) P 16,876 (Miss. 2004), resulted in new joinder and venue rules.
• Community Bank of Ellisville v. Courtney, 884 So.2d 767 (Miss. 2004), $5 million judgment reduced to $7,000.
• Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc. v. Bailey, 878 So.2d 31, Prod. Liab. Rep (CCH) P 17,008. (Miss. 2004), $100 million verdict vacated.