Butler Snow LLP is pleased to announce that 39 attorneys have been selected for inclusion in the 2025 edition of Mid-South Super Lawyers® and 19 have been selected as Mid-South Rising Stars.
Super Lawyers® is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a rigorous process, including a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. Only 5% of lawyers in each state or region are named to the Super Lawyers® list and no more than 2.5% are named to the Rising Stars list. Super Lawyers® identifies Rising Stars as those attorneys, 40 years old or younger, who have made exceptional contributions in a particular practice area for 10 years or less.
Selected attorneys for this year’s edition include the following:
Birmingham, AL
2025 Mid-South Super Lawyers
- Christopher S. Berdy – Personal Injury – Products: Defense
- A. David Fawal – Insurance Coverage
2025 Mid-South Rising Stars
- Xan Ingram Flowers – Civil Litigation: Defense
Huntsville, AL
2025 Mid-South Rising Stars
- Jordan S. Hennig – Immigration: Business
Memphis, TN
2025 Mid-South Super Lawyers
- James E. (Jeb) Bailey III – Bankruptcy: Business
- Eric E. Hudson – Class Action
- Michael I. Less – Construction Litigation
- Melody McAnally – Business Litigation
- Charles F. (Chip) Morrow – Personal Injury – Products: Defense
- Randall D. Noel – Business Litigation
- Gadson William (Will) Perry – Business Litigation
- Edward L. Stanton, III – Criminal Defense: White Collar
- Daniel W. Van Horn – Business Litigation
- Jason G. Yarbro – Real Estate
2025 Mid-South Rising Stars
- Katelyn R. Ashton – Health Care
- Brande L. Boyd – Mergers & Acquisitions
- Scott M. McLeod – Real Estate
- Geoffrey A. Morris – Real Estate
- W. McDonald (Mac) Plosser – Personal Injury – Products: Defense
- Kathryn K. Van Namen – Construction Litigation
Nashville, TN
2025 Mid-South Super Lawyers
- G. Brian Jackson – Personal Injury – Products: Defense
- David L. Johnson – Employment & Labor
- B. Hart Knight – Environmental Litigation
- Anita Modak-Truran – Entertainment & Sports
- Kara E. Shea – Employment & Labor
- William S. Walton – Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Defense
2025 Mid-South Rising Stars
- Y. Larry Cheng – Business Litigation
- Allyson E. Lynch – Government Relations
- Taylor K. Nelson – Business/Corporate
Ridgeland, MS
2025 Mid-South Super Lawyers
- P. Ryan Beckett – Business Litigation
- H. Barber Boone – Business Litigation
- Edderek L. (Beau) Cole – General Litigation
- Andrea La’Verne Edney – Personal Injury – Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff
- W. Davis Frye – Personal Injury – Medical Malpractice: Defense
- William M. Gage – Personal Injury – Products: Defense
- Haley F. Gregory – Business Litigation
- Tray Hairston – Government Finance
- Chad R. Hutchinson – Personal Injury – Products: Defense
- Alyson B. Jones – Personal Injury – Products: Defense
- Michael E. McWilliams – Business Litigation
- Kyle V. Miller – Personal Injury – Products: Defense
- Meade W. Mitchell – Class Action
- Lem E. Montgomery III – Personal Injury – Products: Defense
- Orlando R. Richmond Sr. – Personal Injury – Products: Defense
- E. Barney Robinson III – Business Litigation
- Stephen W. Rosenblatt – Bankruptcy: Business
- Phillip S. Sykes – Business Litigation
- Timothy M. Threadgill – Employee Litigation: Defense
- Keishunna R. Webster – General Litigation
- Rebecca Lee Wiggs – Personal Injury – Products: Defense
2025 Mid-South Rising Stars
- Kasey M. Adams – Personal Injury – Products: Defense
- William A. Bettis – Securities & Corporate Finance
- Charity W. Karanja – Government Finance
- Blythe K. Lollar – Employment & Labor
- Caroline C. Loveless – Mergers & Acquisitions
- Matthew D. Sitton – Health Care
- Caroline B. Smith – Business Litigation
- Harrison W. Smith – Civil Litigation: Defense
