Mississippi
Personal Injury Lawyers
In recent years, Mississippi personal injury lawyers have had
full time litigating cases involving victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Mississippi personal injury lawyers conduct their work around
the state from such places as Jackson, Biloxi, Gulfport, Hattiesburg
and Tupelo. Besides hurricane damage, Mississippi personal injury
lawyers have had their hands full of other kinds of cases as well
including faulty products, industrial accidents and fires on college
campuses.
Historians have recognized the first state bar association in
the United States as being organized in Natchez by a group of
Mississippi lawyers in 1821. The association was created "for
the purpose of mutual instruction and protection, and for the
honor and respectability of the whole bar of the state."
This voluntary organization, however, remained active for only
four years and was not reorganized until 1886, when an organizational
meeting was held for the election of officers and the adoption
of a constitution and by-laws. Annual meetings of this voluntary
bar association were regularly held until 1892 when the association
was abandoned for the second time.
Again revived in 1905, the voluntary Mississippi state bar association
was initially able to stimulate and promote a number of worthwhile
projects, such as the adoption of a code of ethics for lawyers
and attempts to enforce high ethical standards among lawyers.
By the early 1930's, however, the association was having trouble
tending to the necessary business of ridding the profession of
dishonest and unethical lawyers. Membership in the association
declined sharply in 1930 and 1931, and this decline was inevitably
accompanied by a corresponding decline in income and effectiveness.
The public began to malign the bar as a whole and to spread the
idea that disregard of ethics and dereliction of duty was the
general rule applicable to the vast majority of the lawyers in
the state.
Mississippi
Personal Injury Lawyers
News Briefs:
Mississippi personal injury lawyers are representing the families
of Will Townsend and Howard stone who were killed in a house fire
in 2004. The house fire happened at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
at the University of Mississippi.
After the lawsuit was filed by the Mississippi personal injury
lawyers, the state legislature made sweeping changes to safety
rules for campus housing. The family of the two men who were killed
in the incident are seeking unspecified damages. A third man was
also killed in the incident, but the family has not brought forward
a lawsuit.
More Attorney Information:
New
Orleans Personal Injury Lawyers
Shreveport
Personal Injury Lawyers
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