About Us: Service to the Community and Bar
Members of the firm serve
their city, county, and state with distinction and have been well represented in the state
and local bar associations. Our firm is proud of the academic achievements and
honorary qualifications of its lawyers- all of whom are associated with recognized civic,
industry, and professional organizations. These include:
- American Bar Association
(State and Local Government Section, Torts and Insurance Practice
Section, Litigation Section, and Young Lawyers Division),
- ABA Standing Committee on Election Law,
- American Society of Law & Medicine,
- Bar Association of the 5th Federal Circuit,
- Cleveland-Bolivar County Chamber of
Commerce,
- Cleveland Exchange Club,
- Defense Research Institute (Government
Liability Committee),
- Federal Bar Association (Section of State
and Local Government Relations),
- Federalist Society of Mississippi (Board of
Advisors).
- Groundwater Management Districts
Association,
- Industrial Development Foundation,
- Inns of Court (William C. Keady Chapter,
Northern District of Mississippi),
- International Society of Barristers,
- International Municipal Lawyers Association
(Counties and Special Municipal Districts Department, Litigation and Risk Management
Section, International Committee),
- Mississippi Association of County Board Attorneys,
- The Mississippi Bar (Government
Law Section, General Practice Section, Technology Committee, Professional
Responsibility Committee and Young Lawyers Section),
- Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association,
- Mississippi School Boards Association/Council of School
Board Attorneys,
- National Association of Counties (Intergovernmental
Relations Steering Committee) ,
- National Association of County Civil Attorneys,
- National Board of Trial Advocacy (Civil
Trial Advocacy Certification) and
- World Jurist Association (National PResident,
U.S.)
Griffith and Griffith also
participates in the Mississippi Bar Foundation's Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts
(IOLTA) program to improve our system of justice throughout the state.
Representative Clients
General Counsel for: Benoit School
District, Bolivar County Board of Supervisors, Boyle Manufactering, Inc., Boyle Material
Supply, Inc., Boyle-Skene Water Association, Boyle Tool & Die, Inc., Cleveland Medical
Clinic, P.A., Gaines Oil Co., Inc., Griffith
Farms, Inc., Needle Specialty Products Corporation, Norma Lee Grain Co., Inc., North
Ridge Corporation, North Ridge Corporation II, Rogers Entomological Service, Inc.,
Waterfur Corporation, West Implement Co., Inc., Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Joint Water
Management District.
Local Counsel for: Insurance:
American Justice Insurance Reciprocal, JWF Specialty Company, Inc., MS Public Entity
Workers' Compensation Trust, Mississippi Valley Title Insurance Co., Prudential Insurance
Company of America, Sedgwick-James of
Mississippi, Inc., Titan Indemnity Company. Corporations: Rice Researchers, Inc.,
National Food Processors Association, Nomura & Co., Pacific International Rice Mills,
Inc., Western Surety Co., Great Western Consumer Finance Group, Beneficial Mississippi,
Inc.
Approved Attorneys
for: Federal Land Bank of Jackson, Mississippi, Valley Ttitle Insurance Co.,
Commerce Title Insurance Co., Prudential Insurance Company of America, Equitable Life
Insurance Society of the US, Federal land Bank of Cleveland, MS, Farmers Home
Administration, Cleveland State Bank, Union Planters Bank, Magnolia Federal bank, National
Mortgage Company, Deposit Guaranty National Banck, Cleveland Community Bank, SSB,
Production Credit Association. |
