Current Employment Position(s)

Partner, since 1978

Year Joined Organization: 1973

Lawyer Overview

Areas of Practice

• Public and Private Offerings of Securities
• Mergers
• Acquisitions
• Tender Offers
• Proxies
• Investment Advisors
• Investment Companies
• Broker-Dealers
• Corporate Trustees
• Insurance and Insurance Holding Company Corporate
• Reinsurance, Redomestication, Business Block Transactions and Products
• Litigation involving Securities
• Corporations
• Shareholder Suits Officers and Directors
• Municipal Bonds and Commodities

Representative Clients

• Bank of New York
• BNL Financial Corporation
• Brokers National Life Assurance Corporation
• The Phoenix Group
• PHL Variable Insurance Co.
• First Commercial Bank, Little Rock (now Regions Bank)
• Simmons First National Bank
• Simmons First Mortgage Company
• Arvest Trust Company
• First National Bank of Fort Smith
• Bank of America
• Bancorp South
• Morgan-Keegan and Co.

Representative Cases

• T.J. Raney & Sons, Inc. v. Ft. Cobb Oklahoma Irrigation Fuel Authority, 717 F.2d 1330 (10th Cir. 1983)

West Practice Categories

Securities Law, Public Offerings, Mergers & Acquisitions, Insurance Law, Litigation & Appeals, Shareholders' Rights, Directors' & Officers' Liability

Bar Admissions

• Arkansas, 1970
• U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1973
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1974

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association, Business Law Section (Member)
• Arkansas Bar Association, Federal and State Securities Law Committee (Member)
• Arkansas Bar Association, Group Insurance Committee (Chairman)
• Pulaski County Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association, Litigation Section (Member)
• American Bar Association, International Law Section (Member)
• St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Little Rock
• North Little Rock Boys and Girls Club

Past Employment Positions

• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Trial Attorney, 1970 - 1973
• Ernst & Young, 1968 - 1969

Education

• University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Leflar Law Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1970
  J.D.
  
  Law Review: Member, Arkansas Law Review, 1969 - 1970
• University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1965
  B.S.B.A.
  Major: Accounting

Fraternities/Sororities

• Sigma Chi
• Beta Alpha Psi

Address

400 West Capitol Avenue
Suite 2000
Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

Phones

(501) 370-1513 (Direct Dial)

Faxes

(501) 376-2147

Emails

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Websites

http://www.fridayfirm.com