Marcellus D. Chamberlain
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Marc is a member of Butler Snow’s litigation department and practices within the firm’s Products, Catastrophic and Industrial Litigation group. Marc is also a secondary member of Butler Snow’s Commercial Litigation and Appellate and Written Advocacy groups. In addition to successfully defending lawsuits ranging from products liability to personal injury, Marc also has significant experience in uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage.
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- Associations
- Bar Admissions
- Civic Involvement
- Education & Honors
- Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- Recent Blogs
Bar Admissions
- Mississippi, 2018
- U.S. District Courts
- Mississippi: Northern, Southern
Civic Involvement
- Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project, Expungement Clinic Volunteer, 2017
- Tougaloo College NAACP, “This is My Vote” Voter Registration Drive, 2014
- Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Commemoration, Volunteer, 2014
- Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) Education Center, Volunteer, 2013
Education & Honors
- Mississippi College School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2018
- Executive Editor, Mississippi College Law Review
- Academic Committee Co-Chair, Black Law Student Association (BLSA)
- Member, Sports and Entertainment Law Society
- Member, Public Interest Law Group
- Best Paper Award, Business Associations
- Best Casenote Award, “It Takes a Village, Not a Schoolhouse: The Deprival of Parents and Students’ Rights to Privacy & Expression in Context of Bell v. Itawamba”
- R. Jess Brown Diversity Scholarship Recipient
- Capital Area Bar Association Scholarship Recipient
- Tougaloo College, B.A., Political Science, cum laude, 2015
- Top Student, Political Science
- Parliamentarian, Reuben V. Anderson Pre-Law Society
- 2nd Vice President, NAACP Tougaloo Branch, Youth & College Division
- Externship, The Honorable Carlton W. Reeves, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, 2018
- Externship, The Honorable Henry T. Wingate, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, 2017
- Internship, The Honorable Bennie G. Thompson, House of Representatives; MS 2nd Congressional District, Washington, D.C., 2015
Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- Guest, In Legal Terms, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, December 1, 2020.
- Co-Author, “Product Liability & Safety USA Trends and Developments,” 2019 Chambers Global Practice Guide, July 2019.
- Author, “It Takes a Village, Not a Schoolhouse: The Deprival of Parents and Students’ Rights to Privacy & Expression in Context of Bell v. Itawamba,” 36 Miss. C.L. Rev. 299 (2018).