About

Mike has been in law practice for 24 years and has represented clients, their families and extended families.  Mike has recovered millions of dollars for those who have suffered.  He has achieved results in individual cases all levels, including over 1.5 Million and over 3 million dollars.

Mike handles employment discrimination cases and injury cases.

Mike is licensed in Mississippi and Pennsylvania and practices in Mississippi.  Mike knows your goal is includes obtaining the highest compensation for you as you also move through the many changes in your life with the highest quality representation.  Mike knows you will suffer during your time healing and does not want you to be suffering more because you don’t know the status of your case.  Mike will tell you the status of your case and answer your questions.  Mike wants to counsel you about your options during those hard times so you are not in the dark as you reach justice.

Each client’s case is a top priority.  Mike believes his job is to be a professional communicator.  This involves counseling you on your alternatives within a great working relationship so the process does not cause even more suffering for you.

Mike attended law school at Mississippi College School of Law from 1995 to 1998 after graduating with a degree in Religion from Kenyon College in Gambier Ohio in 1995 where he focused on Buddhist studies.  He is a Christian. He became licensed in Mississippi (1998) and Pennsylvania (1999).  Mike has spent all of his practice years in downtown Jackson, Mississippi.

Mike and his wife, Emily, met in Mississippi in 1998 and returned here as a family after practicing law in Pennsylvania for five years.

Mike enjoys exercising, creative writing, playing the guitar, fishing and hunting with his son, and laughing and playing music with his daughter.  Mike is interested in many types of music and loves golf.

In 2016 Mike was named one of Mississippi’s leading attorneys while receiving the Leadership in Law award from the Mississippi Business Journal.

Mike is a member of the Mississippi Association For Justice, the Capitol Area Bar Association, the Mississippi Bar, and the Pennsylvania Bar.  Mike is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Northern District and Southern District of Mississippi, as well as the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.  He is admitted to practice before all State Courts of Mississippi.

Michael and his staff recognize that all people face difficult challenges when other interests work against them in the system.

Mike knows that those injured in car wrecks, truck wrecks, or by other acts of negligence suffer extensively as larger interests try so hard not to compensate them adequately.

Mike has litigated many complex, vigorously defended cases in the Mississippi State Courts, Federal Courts, and before the Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission to so many excellent results.