John A. "Jack" Crawford, Jr.

Obtained a $3,101,506.37 jury award in federal court for a Mississippi fertilizer company in a contractor negligence suit with a 60/40% allocation of fault between general and subcontractor, which was affirmed on appeal by the Fifth Circuit see 402 Fed. Appx. 866, 2010 WL 4033992 (5th Cir. 2010), and obtained a $4,200,000 settlement with primary insurance carrier and a confidential settlement with excess carrier. See Mississippi Phosphates Corporation v. Furnace & Tube Service, Inc., 2009 WL 1448967 (S.D. Miss. 2009) & 2008 WL 313770 (S.D. Miss. 2008).

Obtained a defense judgment in a $3,500,000 adversary proceeding by Chapter 7 trustee arising from a massive check kiting fraud, whereby Bankruptcy Court found that bank had a duly perfected first priority lien under Article 4 of the UCC in the bounced checks which were satisfied by the covering wire transfers. See Henderson v. Community Bank, Ellisville, Mississippi (In re Stinson Petroleum Co., Inc.), 2011 WL 4344190 (Bkrtcy. S.D. Miss. 2011), affirmed at 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 37284 (S.D. Miss. Mar. 20, 2012) and, after oral argument, affirmed at 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 409 (5th Cir. Miss. Jan. 7, 2013).

Obtained dismissal of a $15 million suit against Canadian Imperial Banking Corporation (CIBC) and its security broker in the Circuit Court of Shelby County, Tennessee. The successor trustee had asserted claims of conspiracy, conversion, misappropriation and breach of fiduciary duty suit arising from the use of the proceeds of a collar or equity protection agreement to satisfy the secured obligations of another trust. The Tennessee Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court s dismissal of the suit. See Morris v. Grusin, 2009 WL 4931324 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2009).