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Oxford Appellate and Written Advocacy Lawyer
About Donna Brown Jacobs
Current Employment Position(s)
- Attorney
Practice Areas
- Appellate and Written Advocacy
- Drug and Device Litigation
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Mississippi, 1989
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Mississippi
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Mississippi
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Other Affiliations
- American Bar Association, Forum on Communications
- American Bar Association, Appellate Practice Committee
- Defense Research Institute, Appellate Advocacy Committee
- Media Law Resource Center
- Mississippi Bar
- Hinds County Bar Association
- Bar Association of 5th Federal Circuit
Past Positions
- Judge Charles Clark, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Law Clerk
Education
- University of Mississippi School of Law, Mississippi, 1988
J.D.
Honors: magna cum laude
Law Journal: Mississippi Law Journal, Symposium Editor - University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, 1985
B.P.A.
Honors: summa cum laude
Articles
Published Works
- Navigating the Appeal – Practical Tips for the Occasional Appellate Practitioner, Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Quarterly, May, 2009
Office Information
Address
1200 Jefferson AvenueSuite 205 Oxford, MS 38655
Phone
Fax
- (662) 513-8001
Websites
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Included on the 2022 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
Past Lists
- 2021 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2017 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2016 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2015 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2014 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2013 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2012 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2011 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2010 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2009 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2008 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2007 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2006 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
Honors
- The Best Lawyers in America, Appellate Law
- Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Litigation: Appellate
- Mid-South Super Lawyers, Appellate
- Quarterly Procedural Update, Fifth Circuit Reporter
- Mississippi Law Section, 50-State Survey of Law of Defamation and Invasion of Privacy
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