• 1: Home
• 2: Our Story
• 3: Meet Us
• 4: Our Practice
  • 4.1: Toxic Tort
    • 4.1.1: Asbestos
    • 4.1.2: Benzene
    • 4.1.3: Chemical & Mold Exposure
    • 4.1.4: Environmental Litigation
    • 4.1.5: Hearing Loss
    • 4.1.6: Silica
  • 4.2: Litigation
    • 4.2.1: Appellate
    • 4.2.2: Antitrust / Unfair Competition
    • 4.2.3: Commercial Litigation
    • 4.2.4: Drugs & Medical Devices
    • 4.2.5: Financial Services
    • 4.2.6: Insurance
    • 4.2.7: Personal Injury
    • 4.2.8: Product Liability
    • 4.2.9: Professional Liability
  • 4.3: Business
    • 4.3.1: Business
      • 4.3.1.1: Banking
      • 4.3.1.2: Corporate Governance
      • 4.3.1.3: Financing
      • 4.3.1.4: Transactions / Securities
    • 4.3.2: Real Estate
      • 4.3.2.1: Acquisitions & Dispositions
      • 4.3.2.2: Development
      • 4.3.2.3: Financing
      • 4.3.2.4: Leasing
    • 4.3.3: Tax
• 5: Track Us
• 6: Our Clients
• 7: Work With Us
  • 7.1: Summer Associate Program
  • 7.2: Lateral Opportunities
  • 7.3: Support Staff
• 8: Find Us
  • 8.1: Jackson
  • 8.2: Dallas
  • 8.3: Houston
  • 8.4: New Orleans
  • 8.5: Denver
  • 8.6: Detroit

City Centre, Suite 100
200 South Lamar Street
Jackson, Mississippi

39201-4099

Phone: 601.960.3210

Fax: 601.960.8613

Email: ellistd@fpwk.com

Primary Office Location

Jackson, Mississippi

Hometown

Quitman, Mississippi

Education

Mississippi College School of Law, J.D. (summa cum laude)
University of Mississippi, B.A. Political Science

Bar Admissions

Mississippi, 2004

Specific Areas of Practice/Main Focus

Appellate
Asbestos
Environmental Litigation
Personal Injury
Product Liability

Organizations/Committees Membership

The Mississippi Bar
Fifth Circuit Bar Association
Hinds County Bar Association
Jackson Young Lawyers, Board of Directors
Mississippi Women Lawyers Association

Law School Honors & Awards

• Herrin-Hess Scholar
• Law Review
• Moot Court Board

Important Litigation Involvement

• Defense of a Fortune 125 company in both products and premises liability claims filed across the country
• Counsel for a national railroad company including the day-to-day management of FELA cases filed in Mississippi
• Co-trial lawyer representing Illinois Central Railroad in Illinois Central Railroad Company vs. Willie R. Harried, Warren R. Turner, William S. Guy and Thomas W. Brock; Civil Action No. 5:06-CV-160 DCB-JMR.  A federal jury in Natchez, Mississippi, on March 8, 2010, found that Mississippi plaintiffs' attorneys William Guy and Thomas Brock committed fraud and breached the duty of good faith and fair dealing in asbestos claims they filed against Illinois Central Railroad.  The jury found that Guy & Brock of McComb, Mississippi, submitted fraudulent information to Illinois Central Railroad to conceal their clients' involvement in the earlier case (David Cosey v. E.D. Bullard Co., 1995), which would have barred their clients' claims against Illinois Central.  The jury awarded Illinois Central full repayment of the $210,000 Illinois Central paid on those claims plus an additional $210,000 in punitive damages.

Pro Bono

• Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project
• Mississippi Center for Justice
• Post Katrina Legal Assistance
• Stewpot Community Services Legal Clinic