J.D. is a member of Butler Snow's business services group and focuses his practice on a range of corporate, real estate and construction matters.
Overview
J.D. is a member of Butler Snow's business services group and focuses his practice on a range of corporate, real estate and construction matters.
Practice Areas
Industry
Experience
- Sales and acquisitions of privately held businesses in a variety of industries including construction, manufacturing, information technology, healthcare, insurance, transportation, and wholesale and retail distribution.
- Representation of a Dallas-based information technology enterprise in purchase of a peer leader in the IT space.
- Representation of a leading information technology company in a sale to a multinational publicly traded company.
- Representation of a metal sales and service company to a metal manufacturer and distributor of metal products.
- Representation of the sale of the interest of a majority owner of a privately held roofing and construction company.
- Representation of an infrastructure and utility operations and maintenance company to an infrastructure services company focused on the operation and maintenance of water and waste water systems.
- In general, the representation of private businesses in formation, business strategy, and planning including corporate governance agreements.
Distinctions
- BL Rankings, The Best Lawyers in America®
- Ones to Watch, Litigation – Construction, 2021-2025
- Ones to Watch, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2021-2025
- Ones to Watch, Real Estate Law, 2021-2025
- Mississippi Business Journal
- Leader in Law, 2022-2023
- Top 50 Under 40, 2021
Bar Admissions
- Mississippi, 2014
- U.S. Court of Appeals
- 5th Circuit
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court - Mississippi: Northern, Southern
Education
- Mississippi College School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2014
- Managing Editor, Mississippi College Law Review
- Mississippi State University, B.B.A., Business Management, summa cum laude, 2009
- Clerkship, Hon. James E. Graves, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2015-2016
Associations
- Capital Area Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Jackson Young Lawyers
- Magnolia Bar Association
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Author, "You've Been Generally Warned - Smoking is Bad: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Food and Drug Administration and the Fight Over Graphic Warning Images in the First Amendment Context," Miss. C. L. Rev., Spring 2014.
- Author, "Baby Girl's Fate: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl - Placing a Child's Chosen Parental Path in the Hands of the United States Supreme Court," Southern Journal of Policy and Justice, Spring 2014.
Civic Involvement
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- 100 Black Men of Jackson, MS
- MC Law Bar Prep Mentor
- Phoenix Club of Jackson