Gordon M. Wilbourn

Brian C. Smith practices in the firm’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group. His practice includes experience in the design, implementation and administration of tax-qualified retirement plans including defined benefit pension plans, profit-sharing plans, 401(k) plans and ESOPs. He also works with nonqualified deferred compensation plans and health and welfare plans for financial institutions, regular business organizations, professional corporations and governmen...

Abtin Mehdizadegan is a Partner in our Little Rock, Arkansas, office and represents employers in traditional labor and employment law matters. He has extensive, high-stakes experience defending businesses in class and collective action lawsuits, employment and wage and hour lawsuits, labor grievance and arbitration proceedings, individual and systemic proceedings before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) , unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board...

George Ernst is a Partner in our Little Rock office whose practice specializes in immigration, international business, and labor and employment matters. Also proficient in German, he has over a decade of experience representing multi-national corporations across various industries. His practice focuses on advising clients in highly complex matters relating to the employment of foreign nationals under the EB-5 program for international investors, EB-1 and EB-2 visas for employment-based immigr...

Martha McKenzie Hill is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Government Relations Practice. Martha McKenzie practices law in Little Rock, Arkansas Best Lawyers has recognized Martha McKenzie Hill since 2025. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Martha McKenzie Hill is held by other lawyers.

Jason Campbell was born on November 25, 1975, in Los Angeles, California. He is a partner in the firm of Gill Ragon Owen, P.A., and has been a litigation specialist since 2001 with emphasis on professional malpractice, design professional defense, construction law, property and casualty defense, trucking and transportation defense. Jason is licensed to practice in Arkansas, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals...

J. Shepherd Russell III is a partner in the firm’s Public Finance Practice Group where he has practiced exclusively since 1978. His practice encompasses bond and other debt offerings issued by or on behalf of the various public instrumentalities in Arkansas and elsewhere. Shep’s work is focused on the financing of public and nonprofit projects throughout Arkansas, including bonds sold by underwriters, bonds placed with governmental agencies and local banks, bonds sold at public sa...

Mr. Hendrix has practiced law for twenty-five years, specializing in complex criminal litigation that includes white collar, public corruption, and death penalty cases. He has served as the Chair of the Criminal Law Section of the Arkansas Bar, where he founded subcommittees for Indigent Defense and Death Penalty Oversight, and presently serves on the Arkansas Bar’s Editorial Board and Joint Task Force on Time Standards. He is past Vice-President and Editor-in-Chief of the Arkansas Asso...

Walter McSpadden is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Commercial Transactions / UCC Law and Public Finance Law. Walter practices law in Little Rock, Arkansas Best Lawyers has recognized Walter McSpadden since 2023. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Walter McSpadden is held by other lawyers.

Brian Pipkin provides legal counsel and regulatory guidance to insurance companies, insurance agencies and producers, health plans, managed care companies, and other insurance and health care related entities, on a national basis. He has extensive appellate experience in cases before the federal courts of appeals, state supreme and intermediate appellate courts, and federal and state administrative agencies.

David C. Jung is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants. David C. practices law in Little Rock, Arkansas Best Lawyers has recognized David C. Jung since 2024. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which David C. Jung is held by other lawyers.