Briana A. O'Neil

Briana O’Neil was admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 2018. Briana focuses her practice primarily in the areas of products liability litigation, medical malpractice, premises litigation, insurance defense, and white-collar criminal defense. Her products liability experience has involved representation of manufacturers in the automotive, heavy machinery, and home product industries. She is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Mississippi and has also handled cases for clients outside of Mississippi, including in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Kentucky. Briana is an active member of the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section and the Mississippi Bar’s Young Lawyers Division.

• The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch (2024-26, Criminal Defense: General Practice; Product Liability Litigation – Defendants)

• Mid-South Super Lawyers (2023-2025, Rising Star, Personal Injury - Products)

• Mississippi Bar Foundation’s Law-Related Public Education Award (2025)

• Most Outstanding Advocate Award, North Carolina Advocates for Justice (2018)

• Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law (2017-18, Notes and Comments Editor)
• BLSA Mock Trial Team, Third Place, Southern Regional Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition (2017)
• CALI Excellence for the Future Awards - Constitutional Law II and Innocence and Justice Clinic II

• Ole Miss Student Hall of Fame (2015)

• American Bar Association - Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) (2025-26 Chair-Elect of the Automobile Litigation Committee)
• Young Lawyer Division of the Mississippi Bar, Chair of the High School Mock Trial Competition (2022-2026)
• Toyota Counsel in Motion Participant (2022-2023)
• Jackson Young Lawyers Association
• The Mississippi Bar
• Young Lawyers Division of the Mississippi Bar, Board of Directors (2022-2024); Chair of the High School Mock Trial Competition (2022-2024)
• Defense Research Institute
• Junior League of Jackson

• Capital Area Bar Association (2024-2026 Chair for Evening Honoring the Judiciary)

• Central Mississippi Ole Miss Rebel Club, Board of Directors