Jacobs

Donna focuses her practice on appellate matters, pharmaceutical product liability defense, and media defense.

• Appellate & Written Advocacy
• Drug & Device Litigation

• Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare
• Entertainment and Media

• Rebelwood Apartments RP, LP v. English, 48 So.3d 483 (Miss. 2010).
• Memphis Biofuels, LLC v Chickasaw Nation Indus., Inc., 585 F.39 917 (6th Cir. 2009).
• Grobelny v. Baxter Healthcare Corp., 341 Fed.App’x. 803 (3d Cir. 2009).
• Morris v. Grusin, Tenn.Ct.App., 2009. 2009 WL 4931324, December 22, 2009.
• Barbour v. State ex rel. Hood, 974 So. 2d 232 (Miss. 2008).
• 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.

• Fellow, Mississippi Bar Foundation
• Best Lawyers in America®
  • Lawyer of the Year, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2023
  • Lawyer of the Year, Appellate Practice, 2022
  • Appellate Practice, 2007-2023
  • Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2014-2023
• Super Lawyers®
  • Mid-South Super Lawyers, Appellate, 2006-2022
  • Top 50: Mississippi Super Lawyers, 2006, 2012
  • Top 50: Women Mid-South Super Lawyers, 2011-2014
• Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business
  • Litigation: Appellate (Mississippi), 2014-2016, 2021-2022

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

• 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 Appelas, 5th Circuit

• American Bar Association
  • Forum on Communications
  • Appellate Practice Committee
• Defense Research Institute (DRI)
  • Appellate Advocacy Committee
• Media Law Resource Center
• Mississippi Bar Association
• Capital Area Bar Association
• Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit

• Co-Author, “Daubert and Frye and Anything Goes, Oh My!” Pro Te: Solutio, Vol. 10, No. 1, March 18, 2017.
• Presenter, "E-Discovery: This is What “Scary” Dreams are Made of," Joint Seminar for Mississippi Claims Association and MS Defense Lawyers Association, October 16, 2014.
• Co-Author, "The Path to Aggregate Settlements;" American Bar Association Mass Torts Litigation, Spring 2012, Vol. 10 No. 3.
• Author, "Navigating the Appeal – Practical Tips for the Occasional Appellate Practitioner," Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Quarterly, May 2009.
• Mississippi Law Section, 50-State Survey of Law of Defamation and Invasion of Privacy
• Quarterly Procedural Update, Fifth Circuit Reporter