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Donna Brown Jacobs
Practice Group Leader
Appellate and Written Advocacy Group
Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare Industry Group
Ridgeland 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
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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
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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.
Papers, Presentations, & Publications
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