This includes claims of age, sex and race discrimination in employment termination. The firm's representation of financial institutions involves our representing these clients in lawsuits concerning loan agreements and guaranties, commercial transactions and lender liability claims. In these situations, an attorney in our Litigation Section may team with an attorney in our Business Section. The firm's energy-related litigation practices includes representing corporation, partnerships and individuals in actions regarding access to drilling sites, rights and obligation under joint operating agreements, the sharing and payment of income and expenses from the production and refining of oil and gas, and title to mineral interests. Again, in such litigation, an attorney in the Litigation Section may work with an attorney in the firm's Energy Section.
Environmental claims are a rapidly growing area of the firm's litigation practice.
Such litigation involves federal and state law issues related to hazardous waste disposal and contamination of the air, water and soil. It involves representing clients in enforcement proceedings before the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, the EPA, and in public and private liability actions in federal and state courts. The business-oriented practice of the firm also has lead to the firm's representing clients in securities and antitrust litigation.