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• Jack F. Dunbar - Former President of the Mississippi Bar Association and Southern Conference of Bar Presidents has been appointed President of the International Network of Boutique Law Firm’s Mississippi Chapter.

  The International Network of Boutique Law Firms ("INBLF") is an organization of highly credentialed boutique law firms, each of which, after a great deal of research, has been identified and hand-selected as outstanding in each firm’s respective field. Each member firm practices, and is preeminent, in only one or two specific areas, none of which overlaps with any other member’s area of expertise. The purpose of the INBLF is, among other things, to ensure that each firm’s clients will receive only the highest quality legal representation, should that client choose to retain any INBLF member, and to provide a healthy referral network among the high performing, single focus law firms. www.parsintl.com/14411.pdf

• Holcomb Dunbar, P.A. - A recent survey of the Top 500 U.S Companies by Corporate Counsel magazine chose Holcomb Dunbar, P.A. as a "Go-To" Law Firm in the area of Litigation. According to the magazine, this is a rare honor bestowed upon less than one-half of one percent of all the law firms in the U.S. and abroad. The results of the survey will be published in the Corporate Counsel’s Directory for In-House Counsel which will be distributed to in-house law departments at the nation’s leading financial services companies, reaching 10,000 General Counsel, as well as all the Fortune-1000 Financial Services Companies. A firm cannot pay to be included in this list, but must possess the fundamental credentials of having been named a "Go-To" Law Firm.

  Corporate Counsel magazine surveyed General Counsel from the Top 500 U.S. Companies asking which outside law firms they turn to for legal assistance. The survey sought input on the "Go-To" firms in the practice areas of Litigation, Corporate Transactions, Labor and Employment, Intellectual Property, Corporate Governance and European Union.

• Holcomb Dunbar, P.A. - Has been named by the Oxford Eagle as " The Best Law Firm in Oxford " for the second year in a row.


• Jack Dunbar was selected by his peers to be included in the 2007th edition of The Best Lawyers in America. This marks the 20th year Mr. Dunbar has been selected to this prestigious legal referral guide.


• Tom Suszek recently presented a paper entitled "A Primer on the Real Estate Settlement Practices Act" at a real estate seminar held at the Eagle Ridge Conference Center outside Jackson. The seminar, sponsored by Security Title Insurance Co. and attended by law, real estate and title insurance professionals, received accreditation for continuing legal education by the Mississippi State Bar Association


• Brad Best and Jonathan Masters recently authored two articles concerning insurance litigation. They spoke on the issues covered in those articles at a recent National Business Institute forum on Insurance Coverage Litigation. The articles included: Litigating the Insurance Claim, and Interpreting Coverage Under the Insurance Contract, both published in the NBI July 2006 edition.


• Tiffany Hatcher was recently appointed as a legal consultant to the Oxford Historic Preservation Commission.