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6/5/2025

Chambers & Partners annually conducts extensive research and analysis based on comments from thousands of clients and peers to compile an independent and objective list of talent available at the highest level of legal practice. Watkins & Eager and 24 of its attorneys are listed in the 2025 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.

Chambers USA 2025 ranked the firm in the following categories:

Product Liability: Automobile—USA Nationwide (Band 1)

Litigation: General Commercial—Mississippi (Band 1)

Real Estate—Mississippi (Band 1)

Corporate/Commercial—Mississippi (Band 2)

Environment—Mississippi (Band 2)

Labor & Employment—Mississippi (Band 2)

Public Finance – Mississippi (Band 2)

Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded—USA Nationwide (Band 3)

Chambers USA 2025 ranked individual Watkins & Eager attorneys in the following categories:

Product Liability: Automotive (USA-Nationwide)

H. Lanier Brown II

Bankruptcy/Restructuring

Jim F. Spencer, Jr.

Corporate/Commercial

George R. Fair

Jamie G. Houston III 

Corporate/Commercial: Banking & Finance

M. Binford Williams, Jr.

Molly Jeffcoat Moody

Environment

Betty Ruth Fox

Keith W. Turner

Labor & Employment

Adam H. Gates

Walter J. Brand

Litigation: General Commercial

Alabama

J. Patrick Strubel

Mississippi

David L. Ayers

H. Rusty Comley

Michael O. Gwin

Walter T. Johnson

William F. Ray

Stephanie M. Rippee

Kathy K. Smith

Paul H. Stephenson III

Public Finance

Brad C. Davis

C. Joyce Hall

Real Estate

Paul L. Gunn

Molly Jeffcoat Moody

Jason L. Poulson

M. Binford Williams, Jr.

Roger W. Williams

Tax

Jamie G. Houston III