Distinguished, Effective Legal Advocacy
Don Barrett
Don Barrett
- Managing Partner
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Practice Areas
- Product Liability
- Consumer Fraud
- Antitrust
- Class Actions
Education
- University of Mississippi School of Law, Mississippi
- 1969
- University of Mississippi
- 1967
- Honors: magna cum laude
Bar Admissions
- Mississippi, 1969
- U.S. Tax Court, 1969
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1975
Professional Associations
- Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association
- Charles Clark Inn of Court
- Mississippi Community College Attorneys Association
Representative Cases
- Nealy v. Woodman of the World Life Insurance Society. This was a discrimination case brought against an insurance company, in which I was co-lead counsel. This case was settled for $23.1 million, which settlement was approved by Chief Judge William H. Barbour, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
- Cox v. Shell Oil Co., et al
- Holmes v. Trustmark National Bank, et al, U.S.D.C., So. Dist. Mississippi, No. 1:95-cv-323BrR, a forced-placed insurance class action which resulted in an $8.8 million settlement approved by Judge David Bramlette on June 4, 1997
- Austin, et al. v. Lehman Brothers, Inc. et al
- On January 26, 2009, in Stanich, et al v. Travelers Indemnity Company, et al, U.S.D.C., N.D. Ohio, No. 1:06 CV 962-KMO
- Vereen v. Lowe’s Home Centers, Inc.
Honors
- AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell
- Fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation
- Holmes County Chamber of Commerce as Holmes County’s “Man of the Year,” an unusual honor for a trial lawyer
Pro-Bono Activities
- Milton Lee Olive Memorial Committee